Word: forthe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Holy War and of the booty to be got by plundering expeditions into Palestine. Syria is a protectorate of France but her civilized soldiers have never been able to quell the wild, rebellious Sultan El Atrash who lives in a mud palace high in the remote mountains and sallies forth on sporadic raids at the head of his hard-riding, fanatical Druse tribesmen. Last week the dread Atrash was reputed to be rampaging toward Palestine with 800 of his own horsemen and 2,000 Bedouins who recently joined his plundering banner...
...ordinary expenses, fruit, ginger, citron and so forth, I spend about 25c a day. Too much! But I am going to quit. . . . The food is not so good, so we chip in a shilling a day for-Oh! raisins in the boiled rice...
Sudden arrest, a fine of 1,000 rupees and a jail sentence of three months was the punishment, last week, of an Indian publisher and an Indian printer who dared to put forth at Calcutta last year a chunky, controversial book by a snowy-haired, upstanding Poughkeepsie clergyman. Publisher Ramananda Chatterjee and Printer Sajami Das were punished for "sedition." The sedition is supposed to lurk between the pages of the book, India in Bondage- Her Right to Freedom. Last week when Poughkeepsie reporters sought out the author, Dr. Jabez Thomas Sunderland, he was ready for them, ready to wield...
...Mischievous Norse Fire-God of a shape transformable at will. Thor, God of War and Thunder, chained him up when he grew too obstreperous. But Loki will come again to lead forth the hosts of Hel at Twilight of the Gods...
...hearing a battery of alienists and attorneys came forth and electrified the air with attacks on Sculptor Dreyfuss's memory and intelligence. They argued his "unsociability," "potentiality to become a dangerous citizen." Two physicians from the Manhattan Hospital said he was suffering from dementia praecox and had delusions of persecution by his mother and brother...