Word: headed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Secretary of State Kellogg, for whose broad white head the figurative laurel of the Nobel Peace Prize is sometimes predicted, last week continued his pacific statesmanship...
...Russie Opprimee is the Paris news organ of M. Alexandre Kerensky, the post-Tsarist and pre-Communist head of the Russian State. Though M. Kerensky is cordially detested by most Tsarists and by all Communists, he is now publishing an "expose" of the Shahkta Trial...
After betraying Wu and seizing Peking (see p. 17) the Christian War Lord took a grave step. Until then the Republican Government had fulfilled the term of an agreement signed with the head of the Manchu Dynasty, in 1912, whereby the abdicated Boy Emperor was guaranteed the retention of his palace in Peking and a pension of 4,000,000 taels per year. Feng brushed this contract aside, ousted the Boy Emperor from his palace, and gave that young man such good reason to suspect that he would be murdered that, with the aid of his British tutor...
Slap, slap, slap, for 3,600 times without a miss the fretting fists of William Ogden Heath, 27, of Garden City, L. I., struck the punching bag over his head. He was flat on his back, but not for virtuosity in bag punching. His hips and knees were stiff and painful from arthritis. Abnormal deposits of bone made them practically immovable. Drugs, vaccines, sun baths, oven bakings, changes of climate had done him no good. The disease had grown worse, and this backside bag hitting was an intelligent young man's desperate effort to prevent his arm joints becoming...
...sons were faithful, and became in time the chief strength and support of the descendants of Moses. All the sons were united though they scattered to the ends of Europe for the first international banking concern. Probably they came from their magnificent palaces to see Amschel the Younger, head of the House, and to consult the aged Gudula, Die Uralte, an illiterate Sibyl who had vowed never to quit her chair by the window "save only for the tomb." Finally, although Count Corti does not note it, 46 of the descendants of Meyer Amschel had intermarried before the 19th century...