Word: loing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This letter is neither to condemn nor to condone. Rather it is an inquiry lo ascertain if you can furnish me with the address of the maid-of-honor. That's all I want right...
...Moslem tribesmen and the better equipped Chinese troops sent out to rule them. Sinkiang paper money was worth 3% of its face value. But the threatened secession of Sinkiang from China to join the Soviet Union seemed to have been averted, partly due to the daring of Foreign Minister Lo Wen-kan of Nanking who has just led a "pacification mission" to and from these howling wilds...
...Conditions were appalling." reported Mr. Lo. "Consider that for nearly three years the important trade routes between Sinkiang and ourselves were cut off by disturbed conditions. Consequently practically all of Sinkiang's exportable output was routed to the only remaining outlet- the Soviet Union...
...Chinese Governor, accused by Mr. Lo of having "unwarrantably oppressed" the Moslems of Sinkiang and of flirting politically with Moscow, sat in a Nanking jail last week. He had been seized by soldiers whom Generalissimo Chiang sent along with Mr. Lo. In view of the extreme remoteness of the province, Chiang's Council of Generals felt justified in ignoring last week's fresh rumors of massacre and insurrection in Sinkiang...
Before the reporter had finished asking Pete if he had any tattoos himself, the talented artist had ripped aside his ragged shirt and lo. and behold! a huge squirming serpent slithered slowly across his heaving chest. "His name Medusa", proudly explained 'Pete. "The grand master, he done that. It take him two days. He say it do best masterpiece he ever...