Word: nondescript
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...July, 2,000 trolleymen struck against Public Service, Inc. Riots and sabotage followed the importation of strikebreakers (TIME, July 15). Through New Orleans streets rattled and clanked hundreds of nondescript "taxicabs" ready to carry for 10? a public out of sympathy with the trolley company. A New Orleans ordinance provides that all such conveyances must first post a $5,000 indemnity bond, a requirement which few if any of the taxi operators could or would meet. Last week the City Council prepared to enforce the ordinance, with the almost certain prospect of putting the taxis out of business, of forcing...
...grievance had to do with the conqueror's reluctance to cut down Nanking's stupendous military forces. Today Nationalist China has the largest standing army in the world, though by no means the most effective. A rabble nearly 1,500,000 strong are the soldiers of Nationalism, nondescript, ill-drilled, often ragged. Some of their commanders are hired bandit chieftains, others are feudal "War Lords" left over from previous regimes. The cream are spruce, young, "intellectual" Nationalist generals. But the whole motley gang have costly appetites...
...content himself with a job as customs inspector. He once described the post as "a most inglorious one; indeed, worse than driving geese to water," but at least it kept him near to the life of the sea and took care of his Manhattan houseful of wife and nondescript children...
Chang of Shantung. The big bad news of last week was that detested and notorious Chang Tsung-Chang, onetime rapacious war lord of Shantung was back in his old province and battling for possession of it with 26,000 ragged, nondescript troops...
...chairmanship of Secretary Kellogg (see INTERNATIONAL), and as the U. S. Senate seemed disposed to ratify the Kellogg-Briand pact (see SENATE), it could be fairly said that last week Frank Billings Kellogg rode the crest. Therefore, this week is an appropriate time to stroll into the large, nondescript, comfortable home of Mr. and Mrs. Kellogg, on 19th Street Washington, D. C. If a joyous, woolly dog comes bounding down the stair, call, "Bodger! Here Bodger!" After Secretary Kellogg had signed the pact in Paris, Mrs. Kellogg bought "Bodger" in Ireland, as a present for the Secretary's brother...