Word: land
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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During the week General Obregon held a grand council of war at Guadalajara. His intentions, as announced by subordinates: 1) to confiscate all lands held by the Yaqui in their principal stronghold, the State of Sonora; 2) to distribute the Yaqui themselves throughout Mexico on small units of land, thus definitely finally breaking up the tribes as a national unit; 3) to employ in accomplishing this stupendous task every weapon of modern warfare, including poison...
...found for the strangely unsatisfying quality of the play. Undeniably it is written badly. There are moments when Mr. Connelly's genius for portraying the 'homus Americanus' is allowed full sway, and what takes place behind the footlights then becomes amusing and interesting. But when he ventures into the land of elves and gnomes and a forgotten boyhood, Connelly so patently lacks grace and deftness that the result is heavy-handed beyond words. Once or twice he revives sufficiently to shake off the unfortunate claims of fantasy and inserts such a scene as that between a couple of truculent schoolboys...
American plays are corrupting the English language in its native land according to Mr. C. B. Cochran, London theatrical producer. No longer is the Mayfair patois spoken in England; instead one hears "the language of Broadway". Titled ladies, grown weary of formalisms, delight in this latest vogue. And the new rich are cured of dropping their his only to affect a dialed peculiar to the characters created by Mr. Ring Laidner. There ought, says the patriotic producer...
...constantly together except when the President's son is attending classes. Last week the press heard of young Mr. Coolidge's protector for the first time. Forthwith rumors began to brew and circulate. Some said that cranks had been threatening the "First Son of the Land". . . . Others whispered that Colonel Starling's prime duty was to prevent Son John from eloping with Florence Trumbull, daughter of the Governor of Connecticut. At his home in Plainville, Conn., Governor Trumbull did not hesitate to announce that such a rumor was "absolutely bunk." John Coolidge first met Miss Trumbull...
...River region and the socalled Mosquito coast of Guatemala are of great interest both historically and archeologically. The entire region was claimed by England early in the seventeenth century as a protectorate and a colony was established at Black River. About 1820, a man named Gregor McGregor started a land boom there in an attempt to exploit the natural resources of the country. This aroused the diplomats of both the Latin-American republics and the United States, and forced the English to give up all but what is now British Honduras. The kingdom of the Mosquito Indians was recognized...