Word: gan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Kwanji Kato was ordering a night destroyer attack in the Japanese naval maneuvers in the Sea of Japan, 20 miles northeast of Mihoseki. The fleet broke up into attacking and defending parties. The defending warships threw out a smoke screen to hide the flashes of their guns. Bombardment be- gan under battle conditions. Cutting through the sea at full speed, the 850-ton destroyers Warabi and Ashi rode out to meet the "enemy," dashing fearlessly through the man-made fog. Out of the gloom rose of a sudden two ironclad monsters, the 6,000-ton cruisers Jintsu and Naka...
...Instead of becoming soured... of making up his mind to 'get even' with the world some day, he be gan to look forward to the time when he could make life more cheerful for others...
...Muzza Schonau, musician; in London. The ceremony was performed in Esperanto. Rev. A. J. Ashley, Yorkshire church Vicar, officiated in strange-sounding syllables. The bridegroom is known as "edzigonto," the bride as "edzigontino," the best man, "edzigkunolo," the bridesmaid, "edzigkunolino." "Cu vi deziras havi ci tiun virinon kielvian langle-gan edzin on," Rev. Ashley ceased the solemn fluent intonations, gazed inquiringly at the edzigontino. Said she, forsaking virgin existence: "Mi tion volas." Later, the party adjourned to a restaurant where the edzigontino played violin selections, the sole happening of the day not in Esperanto...
...first lap when McKinley made him Comptroller of the Currency. In 1917 he turned the second lap when General Pershing took him on his staff and made him General Purchasing Agent of the A. E. F. After the War he did some first rate arousing when Congress be- gan to question him about purchases for the A. E. .F. and he ejaculated, "Hell 'nd Maria, the Army was sent out to win the War, not to spend days haggling over pennies." He did some more arousing as the first Director of the Budget, when...
...said (TIME, Aug. 24, Page 5) in sketching the career of Mr. H. P. Davison, that he "was a young man who be gan earning his living at 16 as a school teacher. He never got a college education. He got a job as office boy in a small bank, etc." It seems to be clearly implied that his student days were over before or when...