Word: lorded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hundred strong, rode in these automobiles-modern equivalents of a bodyguard of cavalry. A slim but unmistakably commanding Southern Chinese, clad in a uniform entirely unadorned, rode in the third motor car. This was the great Conqueror of half China (TIME, Sept. 20 et seq.), the Nationalist War Lord Chiang Kaishek...
...great barbaric war lord of Manchuria and North China, Chang Tso-lin, remained last week the only Chinese still potent enough perhaps to stem the conquering Nationalists their present line along the Yangtze River and .keep them from overrunning North" China as they have South China...
Chang Tso-lin is a great lord in the good old way. He favors swallows' nest soup, tugs delightedly at his large ears when pleased, has his own officers or their wives spitted on sharp stakes when displeased, and keeps a likely string of concubines. At Peking, Chang reaffirmed to correspondents his violent antipathy to Bolshevism, and roundly declared that his troops were hastening southward and would drive the Nationalists out of Shanghai. At Shanghai Nationalist Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek told news- gatherers that "as soon as possible" his armies would press on to capture Peking. Will Chang fight...
Last week the Prince of Wales visited a hospital at Brighton, England, stopped to chat with a blind veteran. "Your Highness might help a fellow," said the blind one, "by letting him in on the best bet in the Grand National tomorrow." His Highness smiled, hesitated, suggested Lord Stalbridge's entry, Thrown In, running at odds 100-1 against...
Married. Alice Frances Hammond, daughter of John Henry Hammond, lawyer-banker; great-great-granddaughter of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt; niece of Ogden Haggerty Hammond, U. S. Ambassador to Spain; to George Arthur Victor Duckworth, grandson of the late John Campbell Campbell (1779-1861) onetime Lord Chancellor of England, descendant of Plantagenets; in Manhattan...