Word: hourse
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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First he telegraphed urgent orders that reserves should be rushed to the war section in Honan for a "grand offensive." Secondly, he wired that his armies would "sit composedly and starve the rebels out." Within 48 hours, and without previous warning, the President's field headquarters radioed: "The dead...
In Guatemala City, Pilot Richardson learned more details. Only a few hours of rumbling prefaced the eruption. Three hundred to 400 persons were reported killed. Eight important coffee plantations were destroyed. Red hot lava had buried the village of El Patrocinio deeper than Pompeii.*
No figurehead is President Hearst Jr. Ten hours at his desk is no long day for him. Seriously a journalist, ambitious, he dislikes Manhattan but wants to make a success of his job. No less a pundit than Herbert Bayard Swope, onetime chief of the New York World, is said...
Physicians of Peekskill, N. Y. (population 18,400) last week published a plan for foiling patients who try to wheedle free medical advice over the telephone. The 25 Peekskill doctors, practically all of whom are general practitioners including Hickson Field Hart, 66, city mayor, agreed to charge $1 for every...
In Sao Paulo, Brazil, a street car crashed headlong into a circus elephant. The front of the car was smashed, the elephant lay unconscious. For two hours he held up traffic, while his mate stood by. trumpeted, allowed no one to approach.