Word: lefts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...forces. Today Nationalist China has the largest standing army in the world, though by no means the most effective. A rabble nearly 1,500,000 strong are the soldiers of Nationalism, nondescript, ill-drilled, often ragged. Some of their commanders are hired bandit chieftains, others are feudal "War Lords" left over from previous regimes. The cream are spruce, young, "intellectual" Nationalist generals. But the whole motley gang have costly appetites...
Chairman of the new bank is to be Louis Charles Kurtz, 62, jocularly called a tinner because he learned that trade in his father's wholesale hardware, plumbing and heating supplies company. To him was left the responsibility for a bank when its president went off to work for the famed Chicago Banker-Brothers Reynolds, who were also onetime Des Moines bankers...
...further mark of leniency, both judges suspended sentence on Hudson Clarke Jr. on his promise to lead "an honorable life" and try to support his crippled father, and the wives and families of the others, who are left destitute. He walked from the court, free, with $1.27, to start life over again...
...picked his teeth with a pine tree. He spat ponds of tobacco juice. Tussling with his foreman, Hels Helsen, he trampled down an oldtime plateau until all that was left were the black hills of South Dakota...
...light and fluky that the races developed into drifting, breeze-hunting contests between the 285 yards of 33 classes assembled for the Corinthian Yacht Club's regatta. Time and again the Bat led at the start, lagged at the finish. Before the week was out, Sailor Adams Jr. left to join Gerald B. Lambert's Vanitie on the New York Yacht Club cruise. Perhaps thus rid of a jinx, the Bat finally won a race as the Secretary's vacation drew to a close...