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...many miles of surrounding territory plus the right to build a railroad through Shantung Province. In 1914, Japan's first act as one of the Allies was to besiege Tsingtao. It was defended with extreme gallantry by the German garrison, for the Kaiser had bombastically called it "the jewel of my heart." Japan held Tsingtao through the War and after. But its attempt to stay out the 99-year lease was solemnly thwarted by the Great Powers at the Washington Conference (1921-22) and by the Sino-Japanese Treaty of 1922 when Japan solemnly swore to leave Tsingtao alone...
...prison only twice. Gaining skill, he went to London, opened a gaudy gaming place in Kensington, and as "The Honorable Lionel Musgrave, United States Senator," collected $800,000 from British sportsmen before he found it wise to depart. In Ceylon his fame spread when he swindled an Indian jewel merchant out of a basket of gems worth $250,000. In 1913, before Philadelphia police closed "The National Old Age Pension Bureau," he had made $50,000 more. As old age came upon Mr. Woodward he looked back upon a varied and profitable career, estimated that he had made...
Authoress Claire Goll has made a sordid story a little too true to be sordid. Enterprising Publisher Knopf has indicated the dual nature of the book, beckons two different publics by putting out The Jewel in two different jackets: one lurid, one chaste...
...maiden ladies after the War find a Negro cook whom they consider a perfect jewel till they discover he is insane. They keep him anyway. "With him they lived in terror, but in the tradition...
...undiscriminating bunches of images and short imaginative flights so often strung into a narrative of sorts would be much better chopped up into separate lyrics. They need to be strongly and vigorously subordinated to the central motif so that they do not stand out as an occasional flashing jewel on a wire but, as Mr. Morrison succeeds so well in doing, they should appear as integral and inseparable parts of the whole poem. It is true that the finest writing cannot be sustained and that a long poem can only hope to contain intermittent flashes of high lyric poetry. Nevertheless...