Word: lorded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chen Chien Routed. The only notable military action of the week occurred when Chiang Kaishek, onetime Generalissimo of all the Southern Nationalist armies, now War Lord of Shanghai and Nanking (TIME, March 28 et seq.) surrounded and captured 5,000 men commanded by his onetime subordinate, General Chen Chien. Despatches indicated that General Chen will be offered up to the Powers by General Chiang as a "Red" who, on his own responsibility, ordered and carried out the so-called "atrocities" against Occidentals at Nanking (TIME, April...
Senator Hiram Bingham of Connecticut, big-boned Yankee, father of seven sons, one of whom is now studying Chinese in Peking, arrived at that city last week, and was entertained by the great Chang Tso-lin, War Lord of Manchuria and North China, amid peculiarly harrowing circumstances...
...These were introduced as evidence at a secret trial last week, and half the 40 prisoners were ordered strangled. They were not told which were to be strangled, which imprisoned or set free. They were simply herded into a compound a short distance from where Senator Bingham and War Lord Chang were drinking...
...over wooden barriers (2½ ft. high) without wasting an inch of height. Critics said they were the best amateur low-hurdlers in the world. The Irishman, Johnny Gibson of Fordham University, won. His time for the 400-metre hurdles was 55 2/5 sec. Two yards behind him was Lord David George Brownlow Cecil Burghley of Cambridge University, who had been speedier two years ago. The other Cambridgian, T. C. Livingstone-Learmouth, who had led the way over half of the hurdles, finished a yard behind Lord Burghley. On the second day of the Penn Carnival last week Lord Burghley...
Last week's Christian Century reported the novel method by which 60 plump matrons of Pastor M. B. Lord's Kensington Methodist Church at Berlin, Conn., measured out the substantial token of their esteem for him. 'Midst much giggling and chaffing they passed tape measures about one another's waists. Total was 4,114 inches, an average of 68.5666 inches per matron. Unabashed, they gathered together a cent for each girth-inch; gave the $41.14 to their parson...