Word: mongol
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dressed on this occasion in his newest grey clock, hat to match, a sparkling Christmas the, and a mischievous twinkle in his eye, the Vagabond will descend from his Tower this evening--where he has been all too much of late--and sup quite royally on Puree Mongol, honey, skin to the best from the Isles of Greece, Chicken, conceived in the Brook side manner, Peas, from the Birds Eye Foundation and invalidated triple A potatoes. And all prepared in the excellent cuisine of Dunster tradition...
...pressed Premier, Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, had more of his usual bad news last week. Japanese money and arms had induced Mongolian Prince Teh to proclaim an "independent" state in Inner Mongolia bordering the Chinese Great Wall. To the north Mongolian soldiers and Japanese planes forced the surrender of the Mongol city of Changpeh in Chahar Province, laid the groundwork for another independent State bordering the "Autonomous Government of North China" hatched last November by the Japanese Army (TIME. Dec. 2). As Japan chipped away at Generalissimo Chiang's China (see map) it became a matter of pressing importance where...
Though the show made no attempt to rival the historic Persian exhibitions in London's Burlington House (TIME, Jan. 12, 1930), it did offer a comprehensive outline of Persian illumination from its great period of Chinese and Mongol influence in the 13th Century to its degeneration at the end of the 17th Century. It gave gallery-goers some understanding of the feeling that prompted the 15th Century Shah Ismail to lock his favorite miniature painter Behzad in a cave before going to war with the Turks; that made Persian merchants value one line of perfect script at one gold...
...some embarrassment the Chief of the Mongol Affairs Department of the Manchukuan Government, left Hailar last week for the great and little known lake of Bor Nor. With him he took a whole battalion of surveyors to establish 28 observation posts along the border, rectify the present "typographical errors" that show the Mongol border passing sometimes through the lake, sometimes around...
...Japan not only as a future base for the invasion of Northern China, but also as a prime point on the strategic caravan route to outer Mongolia and Russia. The brief & bloody capture of this little corner of disputed territory last week was an obvious Japanese threat to Mongol chieftains to mind their manners. Nanking's complaisance was a fair admission that China's Nationalist Government was resigned to the eventual loss of Chahar, probably in return for a promise that for a little while yet, Peiping and Tientsin will not be captured...