Word: molesting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Michigan fights over skunks. Recently biologists and furriers convinced the state legislature that skunks are valuable integral parts of a community, and as such should expect the protection due to any and all of the state citizens. As a result, it is now against the law in Michigan to molest skunks, even in the way of self protection, during the months from February to November...
...yacht to meet T. R. H., as their steamer hove in to Alexandria. Even distant observers could discern His Majesty's obsequious nervousness. He is a British puppet and in constant danger of assassination by patriots of his own race. More, he is constantly anxious lest such patriots molest or assassinate British officials in Egypt. Therefore, though precautions to protect the English princes had been tripled and re-tripled, they were entertained principally upon His Majesty's yacht...
...Expedition for the American Museum of Natural History. His present despatches report him having reached the crater of Balbi, active volcano on the northwest coast of the Island of Bougainville. For aids through tropical rains, mud and brush he could get only two Polynesian sailors. Natives, however, did not molest...
...Nationalist General Pai Tsung-hsi, Chief of Staff to the great Nationalist War Lord Chiang Kai-shek (sea below). General Pai received the British, French and Japanese consuls-the U. S. consul pointedly absenting himself. Soon the Chinese commander issued a proclamation calling upon Chinese not to molest foreigners; but in it occurred indiscreetly the term "world revolution" which was caught up and bandied by correspondents (see above). ¶ General Pai said to newsgatherers: "The Nationalist movement is committed to absolute religious freedom; and is particularly favorable to the American Y. M. C. A. which is helping Chinese youth educationally...
...Yaqui thus molest the so distinguished general in whose veins courses so much Yaqui blood? Friends of General Obregon widely expressed their surprise. Then a despatch reported that the Yaqui have been forcibly prevented by the Calles Government from making their usual pilgrimage to certain of their (Catholic) shrines. Allegedly their attack upon Obregon was intended as a reprisal for the Mexican Government's suppression of the Church (TIME...