Word: lording
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...probably been warned by spies in advance of Mme. Borodin's coming. He arrested her and the couriers, put them on an armored train under heavy guard, and rushed them as valuable hostages to Tsinan, Shantung, capital of their chief enemy, "Chang of Shantung," notorious, unprincipled War Lord...
From Hankow, Michael Markovitch Borodin communicated frantically with Moscow and Soviet Russian representatives in Peking and Shanghai. Soon "demands" were made by the Soviet Government upon the great Northern War Lord Chang Tsolin, theoretically the feudal superior of the Shantung Chang. The two Changs were informed that they must release Mme. Borodin, her couriers, her baggage, and the S. S. Pamiat Lenina. But Mme. Borodin was not released. To rescue her, Russia must send much gold, or many men, offer some great concession, or concoct some really potent threat. "Mrs. Grosberg," Chinese thought, is likely to prove the most valuable...
...Between the Northern and Southern Chinese factions struggling for Shanghai (TIME, Oct. 4 et seq.) no important engagement occurred, last week, but the Southerners were strengthened by the sudden desertion to their cause of a previously neutral War Lord, Chen Tiao-yung, Governor of Anhwei, a province so located as to threaten seriously the rear of the Northern forces, if Chen has really turned against them...
...brilliant if blighted men who had kept him from war because their own fundamental weakness called for peace. With their passing the Kaiser was drawn into the war, thinks Ludwig, against his will but as the logical consequence of his self deception in picturing himself a War Lord...
Only 26 years ago, he made his first joyful noise unto the Lord from Trenton, N. J. At 6, he began composing. At 10, he was a violin virtuoso, playing with string quartets in Budapest, Warsaw, Berlin, At 13, he had written his first symphony. Since 20, he has lived abroad and astonished the world. In France, he has been called "the most important U. S. composer...