Word: lorded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Exactly Hollywood's idea of a Chinese War Lord, burly in figure, greasy but intelligent of face, and with a thin mustache is General Han Fu-chu. Japanese have $100,000,000 invested in the Chinese province of which he is Governor, famed Shantung which juts out into the Yellow Sea facing Japan like the chin of a placid prize-fighter all ready to be clouted. Last week Japanese bombing planes continued to hurl at Tsinan. Han's capital, not death-dealing bombs but attractive offers encased in protective lengths of bamboo which rattled enticingly as they struck...
Chicago Daily News's able China veteran A. T. Steele was last week the only correspondent to reach Shantung's Han. "It was evident." he cabled, "that General Han is a worried and unhappy War Lord-not the self-confident militarist this correspondent met on previous visits here...
...Lord Han shouted: ''I will have no part in such treachery!" as taking bribes from Japan, but Mr. Steele knows his War Lords, chose to stress as the most important Shantung factor the arrival of so many Nanking troops in the province that it was doubtful last week whether Han remained sufficiently master of his province so that he could choose whether to sell out. The Nanking troops had not come fresh and forward into Shantung from Central China but were retreating into it last week from the North, badly disorganized by the Japanese punishment they have taken...
...used by Catholics today, a Rosary is a string of beads to which is attached a crucifix. The size and number of the beads remind the faithful, in fingering them, to repeat prayers in "decades" or groups of ten Ave Marias (Hail Marys) preceded by a Pater Noster (Lord's Prayer) and followed by a Gloria, while meditating on the mysteries of Christ's life, death and resurrection. Usually a Catholic says five decades, or a total of some 60 brief prayers, at a time, but the true Rosary consists of 15 decades...
...Died. Lord William Robert Wellesley Peel, 70, famed British Conservative, twice (1922-24, 1928-29) Secretary of State for India; in Petersfield. England. Earl Peel was a grandson of Sir Robert Peel, Queen Victoria's famed Prime Minister, who founded the London Police force (named after him ''bobbies"). In the House of Commons Earl Peel was called "Never-merry" Peel because "his disposition ... is not precisely sweet." This year, he was Chairman of the Royal Commission on Palestine that sourly recommended partition of Palestine between Arabs and Jews...