Word: may
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recently won by the Chinese Nationalists, a Japanese interventionary force occupied Shantung ''to protect the lives and property of Japanese colonists" and has remained in occupation ever since. With scant or manufactured provocation, this Japanese force attacked a Nationalist Army at Tsinan, the Capital of Shantung (TIME, May 14), thus seriously embarrassing for a time the eventually victorious. Nationalist offensive...
...cast) thirst in a desert composed obviously of flour, shavings, and papier-mâché; their thirst, however, is real, their momentary, flaring hatreds, their gestures toward heroism, renunciation, their final acceptance of themselves, all these are real, surviving buoyantly the inadequacies of mechanics. Director Joe May, Actor Lars Hanson, maintain the fact, recently put to question by shoddy productions, that Hollywood may have bought most of the talent of the UFA company but has not yet bought all the brains. Dita Parlo 13 the girl to whom the soldiers return; she has both brains and beauty...
...exercise of his profession, he is curiously without legal protection, or social position. According to the whim of the moment the man he interviews may paste him at the first question, or sneer, or smile. If the reporter develops as a result of this a cynical contempt for all the other estates, a perpetual grouch, an inferiority complex, it is not surprising...
...achieved, more thoroughly than 98% of his contemporaries, the titles of host, amateur scientist, clubman (20 of them), with all of which he is quaintly press-shy. His fortune has come from public utilities, which he developed, not as a sportsman but as a shrewd businessman, and which may now exceed a round hundred millions. He lives at Glen Cove, Long Island, and in the Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, town house of the late Elbert H. Gary, which he purchased last spring...
...workshop where Italian boys are apprenticed in the old tradition to a master cabinet maker-Nicola Famiglietti, once of Naples. In the little house on Jones Street, designed by Delano & Aldrich, architects for Greenwich House itself, there are, not classes, but a guild of young boys whose ancestors may have been famed violin makers or stone cutters of Italy, or sculptors whose talents have descended to a generation unrealized were it not for Greenwich House and Victor Salvatore, who lends his time and enthusiasm and wise counsel to the development of "The Arts of the Building Trade...