Word: nones
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...husband of a woman who had been tried for murder and he himself had been tried for treason and both had survived their tribulations. Nor did those fascinating eyes of his betray that he had come to London desperately intent on speaking the English language with which he was none too familiar, and on negotiating a delicate diplomatic matter of the first importance. Bowing behind this strange figure appeared the diplomatic corpus of M. de Fleurian, the French Ambassador...
...Situation. The problem of the conference will be much more than the economic question of determining what tariff is fair and equable. It involves the entire situation in China. China is a bundle of conflicting forces none of which is dominant. In the first place there is the Peking Government, nominally ruling the country but actually hardly more than painted drop screen in front of affairs. The Peking Government is extraordinarily weak. In South China its power is purely nominal. The great body of the people, 95% or more is illiterate and grossly ignorant, some...
...their fingers are fagots of bruised nerves and the sound of their instrument echoes as hollowly to their ears as sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal, dream, when asleep, of the perfect piano. They seat themselves before a suave and sable instrument that is pliant to their will as none that mortal hands have ever fingered; it speaks for them with a mighty organ voice; notes, at the command of their subconscious will, sing with the pomp of trumpets or the tenderness of fiddles, yet it is no pipe organ that they play, but a crisp, living, leaping engine...
...vacant posts with flesh and blood, famed, able, interested. Who was chosen for this responsible post? The Press had anticipated that it would be Judge Gary?but it was not he. Who else of the notables? A merchant prince? A captain of industry? A potent segnor of the law? None of these. Judge Gary and his associates centered their selection upon a young man, only 29; a member of the New York Assembly (lower house of the legislature...
...that section of the melodramatic horizon managed by Rex Beach. He wrote of the Klondike and dance-hall nights; of the pure girl and the older blonde who loved the same man; of murmuring wastes of pine and snow. His men are all pure in their later incarnation; none of the boys would think of swearing at Rouletta or feeding her whisky...