Word: merchantable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Life came to President Chiang Kai-shek 41 years ago in the minute village of Fenghwa in Chekiang Province. After running away from being apprenticed to a merchant he managed to win a military scholarship and embraced the career of arms under the doomed Dragon Throne. When patriotic bombs began to pop, Chiang Kai-shek (then a stripling of 24) secured command of a revolutionary brigade in Shanghai and lived for several months the gay life of a looter, profligate ?drunken and debauched. Suddenly he cut short this spree and when convivial friends assembled to remonstrate he cried...
...Merchant Truckmen's Bureau of New York (500 voters), by unanimous vote at a meeting. Reason: as a onetime truckdriver, Nominee Smith has stood against "efforts to tax the motor truck off the highways...
Died. Abraham Isaacs, 70, Ohio dry goods merchant & philanthropist, father of six professors and associate professors (Harvard, University of Rochester, University of Michigan, Columbia, Pittsburgh University); in Cincinnati, Ohio. Died. Henry Charles ("Carl") Ramos, 72, veteran New Orleans saloonkeeper, inventor of the famed, much-imitated Ramos gin fizz;* in New Orleans...
...Pious Merchant Tailors should honor no more fig leaf or apron of fig leaves, but rather the Lord God, as the true originator of their ancient profession...
Early Victorian. This daughter had a daughter−out of wedlock−by a respectable village merchant, who kept the child, gentle Mary Anne, and lavished on her wealth, breeding, everything but a legitimate name. Queer, handsome Charles, heir to the Babyons, gave her that, and a son who adored...