Word: harbin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Married the father, divorced him; married the older son, divorced him; married the younger son. That is what Olga Renovsky, 18, of Harbin, Manchuria, did to the Urosov family between last spring and last week...
...Harbin, Manchuria, an Associated Press correspondent last week cabled excerpts from the announcements of a benefit performance in a leading Harbin restaurant. The performance was entitled: "Exclusive and only visit of the world-famous circus eccentrion...
Three motor cars lately jounced and bounced along the dusty pot-holed road into Samarkand, Russian Turkestan, ancient seat of Khans, golden city of Western poets. They had come from Harbin, Manchuria, some 4,000 miles. Their chauffeurs were moderately excited because none of them had had to regrease his car. At Harbin they had been supplied with the invention of one Alexander Muhacheff, Russian engineer; an oil extracted from the seeds of a weed that grows wild over vast areas of Manchuria. Despatches last week from Peking stated that some Japanese gentlemen had interested themselves in Engineer Muhaeheff...
...only does Metro-Goldwyn waste Jack Pickford on an attempt to do him justice but the Harvard Dramatic Club forgets the plays of Prague and Harbin and points cast to do its own Brattleian homage to this Great God Brown. Surely the indignation or scorn of honest laughter of the Jones, the Cabots and the Smiths is more than just justified...
Late and unsubstantiated despatches from Moscow reported that Chang's troops had seized "numerous additional Soviet workers and officials at Harbin." Allegedly Chang imposed a complete censorship upon the local Soviet newspapers, which appeared "with big blank white pages" in protest...