Word: nones
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...smallest cheers. A crowd of 40,000 packed the stadium; 75,000 would have paid to get inside had there been room. It was not a smart crowd. The color and boisterousness, the mixture of bigwigs and hoodlums who attend prize fights and horse races were lacking. There was none of the suave enjoyment of a polo or lawn tennis crowd. The people at the IXth Olympiad resembled those who attend high school basketball games, minor league baseball games, county fairs, circus side shows, early season football games. Many of them can tell you, in split seconds, all the world...
Political forces emanating from the U. S. and Japan were exerted at cross purposes, in China last week, not against each other but none the less in conflict. Both military intimidation and diplomatic pressure were employed by the Imperial Japanese Government against the new Chinese Nationalist State. The reason was that the Nationalists had just served notice that they will not extend or renew the Sino-Japanese commercial treaty of 1896, which grants concessions most advantageous to Japan. In an effort to compel the Chinese Nationalists to reconsider, the Mikado's Government took four drastic steps. First, it refused...
...Great War again). When he got home his wife announced herself unfaithful, and wanting a divorce soon-but not till convenient for her lover. Meanwhile she proposed to satisfy her husband's immediate desire of her, and spineless Nat accepted the situation, complete with carnal favors. Happily, none of the main characters is convincing-not even Cousin (by marriage) Ann who comes to Nat's rescue...
...sent for sale in Poland by the Soviet Government. Perhaps it was that service which secured for M. Rubenstein a private cell and communication with his lawyer, although the Polish prosecutor will endeavor to show that he is the head of an international ring of diamond smugglers. Reports that none of the swallowers were suffering more than a minor gripe, caused physicians to recall that sizable nuts & bolts, small spoons and open safety pins are not infrequently swallowed without fatality...
Assassin-I had none. If there had been others their firing would have created confusion...