Word: missionize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...theme, rather antique, deals with a Christian Mission threatened by a Moslem uprising; with the love of a native son for the Missionary's daughter...
Ramon Navarro in the title role is more roguish than ever before. One is grateful for the absence of "Sheikery." While the Arab's desert-tribe does gallop across the hot sands to the rescue of the Mission at the crucial moment, Rex Ingram has not handled this in the absurd way which often causes the spectators to reach for their hats and march...
...Mission Interalliće du Cōntrol des Usines et Mines) refers to an agreement signed by German industrialists last Fall (TIME, Dec. 3) with the French Government and since renewed...
...mystery surrounding the fate of Tsar Nicholas II and his family, so often solved, has been solved again. In the expressive words of Le Matin, Paris Journal: "General Janin [onetime head of the French Mission in Siberia] has spoken." It appears that the General was given several urns of human ashes by the Russian General Diterichs and M. Gilliard, tutor to the little Tsarevitch. These gruesome relics he handed over to M. de Giers, quondam Russian Ambassador to Rome, and the latter has, apparently, handed them over to the Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaievitch, cousin of the Tsar and leader...
...surrender himself His Majesty's Legation would be broken into on the 16th. The Consul General was warned by me of the gravity of such a step and I made a final request to the Government to take no further action until the arrival of the Hohler mission, which I was still prepared to send...