Word: massed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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People in this country with their extensive fictional knowledge of the yellow people, have complacently left Chinese warfare to the chorus in comic opera. Attended as it is by mass starvation, wholesale looting, and peculiarly Oriental cruelty, the interminable struggle does not, of course, merit such classification, but as a theatrical spectacle, it does provide an interesting analogy to Europe's own rise from feudalism some five centuries ago. For the leaders of both sides are independent lords at the head of vassals whose patriotism is largely a monetary consideration...
...which President Coolidge wished peace & prosperity to Persia on the second anniversary of Reza Khan Pahlevi's coronation. . . . Flowers from President & Mrs. Coolidge went to Mrs. Lemira Goodhue, first mother-in-law of the land, on her y8th birthday. Mrs. Goodhue was still in Dickinson Hospital, Northampton, Mass., as for four months past...
...Springfield, Mass. Republican, daily Bible of many a Coolidge-type Republican, said in an editorial last week: "Perhaps no candidate could save the Republican party this year. It has sins to answer for-and crimes. There is terrible force in the contention that the Republican party deserves punishment, if it is impossible.to put the Falls, Dohenys and Sinclairs into jail. How can it escape punishment if it rejects a candidate with the qualifications of Mr. Hoover, unless there is a candidate with higher qualifications? And where...
...speaker was Andrew Joseph ("Bossy") Gillis, red-headed mayor of Newburyport, Mass...
...Charles H. Clark, editor of the Textile World, has been zealous & learned. He solemnly told the cotton men at Pawtucket last week, that: "Thorp was born in 1784, presumably in Rehoboth, Mass., the son of Reuben and Hannah (Bucklin) Thorp. No records of the date and place of his birth have been located, but entries in the Bibles of his brothers, David and Comfort, agree that at the time of his death, Nov. 15, 1848, he was sixty-four years old. For the assumption that he was born in Rehoboth there is the fact that his father and mother were...