Word: lording
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Verily, verily, I say unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord; neither he that is sent greater than he that sent...
...Chinese press of Peking told excitedly in dainty, complex characters, last week, strange news of the great but fallen Scholar War Lord...
...high monastery in remote Tibet. They read of how Wu Pei-fu had journeyed thither from China, traveling by wearisome forced marches until he reached the monastery and was welcomed by its Buddhist brotherhood. Even in so remote a place, men know that Marshal Wu Pei-fu was War Lord of Central China prior to his overthrow by the Nationalist Revolution (TIME...
...story hinted at much stately converse between Wu Pei-fu and the Buddhist abbot of the monastery. The War Lord who has been all his life a scholar, and a great one, was said to have explained that his last military followers had finally deserted him, and that he wished to become a bonze or Buddhist monk and to retire utterly from the world. What good Father Abbot would reject the chance to garner such...
...Lent is a season of music; composers, stirred by the most human and the most tragic story in the world, have written notes to sound its sadness or its glory. The greatest of all such music is The Passion of Our Lord according to St. Matthew, by Johann Sebastian Bach; this, 199 years after it was heard for the first time, was twice performed last week in Manhattan by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra directed by Ossip Gabrilowitch...