Word: mongol
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mongol tribesmen in the region of Hurunbuir, allegedly instigated by Soviet secret agents, were reported from Harbin to have massacred 150 Chinese...
...rule, strictly relevant to the text. In commenting on this fact and on the lack of substantiating footnotes, the reviewer is fully aware of the difficulty of obtaining authoritative matter strictly relevant to the particulars of the subject in hand. For it must be remembered that the Mongol of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries were for the most part illiterate. Most of the contemporary accounts of Genghis Khan must be sought in works in Chinese and Persian...
...Author of THE MONGOL IN OUR MIDST-Dutton...
Comeback? With Soviet gold, Mongol troops and Russian officers, General Feng Yu-hsiang, "Christian Bolshevist War Lord,'" recently driven from Peking (TIME, April 12) was last week reported preparing a drive from Siberia on his native land. Then quite suddenly the occidental press discovered the General in Berlin. Perhaps he was only buying peanuts...
...Today and Tomorrow Series" continues to increase and multiply. It cannot be said that it is maintaining the standard of excellence set by its first few volumes. Since Haldane's Baedalus, Russell's replying Icarus and Crookshank's Mongol in Our Midst, many of the little red books have enjoyed prestige that was largely borrowed. Bertrand Russell wrote a second book (What I Believe), as did Dr. Crookshank (Aesculapius) that stood on independent merits. The feminist controversy between Mrs. Russell and Captain Ludovici (Hypatia v. Lysistrata) was very readable, though biased on both sides. Gerald Heard's Narcissus?An Anatomy...