Word: namee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...troops who had been preserving order in the city ad interim were allowed to depart with a Nationalist safe conduct, after their leader, General Pao Yulin, had partaken of a farewell ceremonious cup of tea. The Peking Diplomatic Corps informed the Nationalists, at this point, in the name of the Great Powers, that General Pao and his men, by preserving order through a difficult crisis, had deserved well of all concerned and must not be harmed or hindered in their progress toward Mukden...
They rejected Southern Cross and sought a more expressive name for the thing which lay at rest on Naselai Beach. It was a boat, for it had come across the water to Fiji, bearing men. But they had never seen a boat which flew in the air like a bird. The inspiration came suddenly. "Waqavuka" (bird-boat) they cried, and their brown hands fluttered about the plane and the four men who stood beside...
Fazil. Charles Farrell is a capable cinemactor, particularly in the role of an earnest young man. But here he is greased up like the late Rudolph Valentino and made to register Arabian passion under the erogenous name of Prince Fazil. The also warm Greta Nissen, as a Parisian blonde called Fabienne, spends many film feet in his arms and on his lips-be the place Paris or Venice or the desert sands. They get married, quarrel, make up, etc. And finally, DEATH-Prince Fazil, mortally wounded by bandits, takes off his poison ring and lovingly punctures the white finger...
...facts of tularemia (TIME, July 23, 1923). Long known as "rabbit fever" among land-workers for its annual toll of thousands of rabbits and ground squirrels, this disease has been recognized as dangerous to man only in the last three years. Discovered in Tulare County, Calif. (1910), it was named tularemia. The germ in man was identified by Public Heath Server Francis in 1925, and the disease is known among the profession as "Francis' disease." Peering through microscope, poring over petrie dish, Dr. Francis and six of his assistants were infected. They recovered, having learned more about the strange...
...slight, blonde English girl with long legs and pale, wistful eyes, moved quickly around a tennis court in Auteuil trying to return the shots that Helen Wills sent at her. The English girl's name was Eileen Bennett and she was steady and careful and did well though it was clear to her and to everyone that she had no chance. They were playing on a hard court for the championship of France and it was well known that Helen Wills wanted to win since she had come to Auteuil for that purpose. Once the English girl broke through...