Word: learnedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...usual, coal, coke and lignite formed one-third of the reparations paid in kind and the most picturesque article in which payments were made continued to be lion traps. Bibliophiles rejoiced to learn that over two million gold marks of reparations were expended last year to restore the War-glutted Libary of Louvain...
...vaudeville; now frankly succumbed to the cinema as well, is No. 4,000 in the endless series of mythical kingdom romances. This one recounts the adventures of the Crown Prince of Belgravia, who gives up his heritage so that he may marry a U. S. citizeness, only to learn that she is in reality the grand duchess he was to have been forced to wed. The whole affair is safely routine with one outstanding exception. For Rudolph Schildkraut, father of the film's leading man, gives such a delightful portrayal of an easy-going and life-loving monarch that...
...this southern section. He knew, of course, that these southern islands contain overwhelmingly Moro, Mohammedan, polygamous and warlike inhabitants who will not pay taxes as it is against their religion. Nor will these Moros ever forgive the Filipinos for forcing their children to go to school where they learn such bad habits as keeping their teeth white instead of black like their parents. Likewise, the Moros dislike both the Filipino and U. S. regimes but of the two prefer the U. S. Emissary Thompson had abundant evidence of this as he landed at Dansalan, Mindanao, where by onetime Filipino Legislature...
...onetime Brigadier General Zagorsky of the Czar's Imperial Russian Army has good reason to detest "Reds." Last week George sweltered in Manhattan, parsed verbs, declined nouns and pronouns. He already speaks fluently French, Russian, German, Greek, Italian, Turkish- no English. He has 18 days in which to learn English before his passport expires. He will then be handed a U. S. Army enlistment examination. If he passes, this young aristocrat who has fought from Smyrna to the Ukraine will become a doughboy. Failure means deportation to Russia...
...military smartness still crops out, as when press photographers caught him in his shirt-sleeves and suspenders at Roosevelt Field a fortnight ago. He was "ashamed," tried to suppress the picture. Years ago France's good angel must have whispered to Rene Fonck that he must learn early about fleet machines, for at 13 he began to study mechanical engineering and soon after to drive racing cars. In 1913, aged 18, it took him but two months to earn his pilot's certificate. Since the War he has stayed in civil aviation continuously-except for the eight...