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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When I arrived at last before the local gendarmerie I paused to look at the thermometer. I looked and sighed. Decidedly, it was going to be another of those days; it had all the ear marks, for it was only 9 A. M. and the mercury had already passed the 84 degree mark, Centigrade, which translated into Fahrenheit means 125 degree, which, in turn; means a Turkish bath sort of existence. For, without undue effort, the temperature will rise to 130 degrees and 135 degrees around noon time, and that is registered in the shade. Those familiar with North Africa...
...forehead, one above the other in the manner of an inverted, or English, chevron, and then rubbed mud and same into the wounds so that they would stand out prettily. "Nothing is too good for our boy," they probably said, as they dragged him around to the local tattoo expert, to have the Hand of Fatime, (for luck), tattooed on one cheek, and an extremely orthodox crescent on the other. Religion is not easily changed in North Africa...
...shells left by summer visitors to western Vermont met our gaze. Commander Fish, who is a scientist as well as a lecturer, a mountain climber and an Elk stopped to inspect these. Old Mumbley-Jumbley, one of the natives in the train, said that these shells were from local Baptists who each year made a pilgrimage to the spring about four feet above the first story...
Students adherent to the new South China Government at Wuchang crossed the Yangtze to Hangkow last week and there propagandized most violently the local American Wesleyan Mission School. While pious female Chinese Wesleyan converts were attending their annual holiday entertainment, the students forced their way into the hall, climbed up on the stage and spoke in terms which were to the Wesleyans unquestionably blasphemous...
...River Rouge, Mich., six bootleggers walked into the office of a Christmas charity committee. Each laid $100 on the table. They said they wanted to buy shoes and rubbers for every child in town that needed them. They said the wanted local ministers to make out a list of the poor children. The ministers hemmed, hawed, spoke of "taints" and "contraband." Only one minister flatly agreed...