Word: land
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...compromise, however, and in the interest of Congressional decency and cleanliness and to get the Prohibition alley-cat off the backs of so-called American statesmen, I will agree to vote a liberal pension to Wayne Wheeler,* provided he will move out of the country and into some land like Soviet Russia or Mexico, where his peculiar talents will be appreciated and poison gas is more popular...
From every corner of the land they came, Harvard men, from the banks, from corporation rooms, from industrial enterprises, from the building of bridges, from pulpits, from newspaper desks, from official seats in Washington, from laboratories and universities, from law offices, to give tribute to the man who had guided them by example or by advice during their formative years, who, more than any other, had prepared them for life. So they came in his death, silent witnesses that he still lived...
Mogul v. Cadet. At the moment, the "Presidency" of China is a matter of insignificance in a land so torn by anarchy that only the military are of account. Last week the Pekingese War Lord Chang Tso-lin, temperamentally a cruel, picturesque, luxurious "Great Mogul" began his expected offensive against the Cantonese (TIME, Dec. 6), by issuing a statement shrewdly designed to win Occidental sympathy: "I am fighting not only in behalf of China, but in behalf of the World. ... The menace of Bolshevism is a world menace and the Cantonese are Bolsheviks. . . . Whether I win or lose is personally...
Died. Deborah Revere, 90, great-granddaughter of Paul Revere ("One if by land, and two if by sea"); in Montclair...
...readable and encyclopaedic. Professor Dowd has much to say and no reason for saying it except to inform. Unprejudiced in tone, easy in style, the book will last. The Author. As a youth in South Carolina, he chopped cotton with Negroes, played with their children, sold them houses and land. He has sat beside them in classrooms and later had them sit as pupils in his own classes. Trained at the University of Chicago, he is now a Professor of Sociology at the University of Oklahoma. For 25 years he has made a thorough study of the Negro problem...