Word: occidentale
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Significance. To hear Sir Thomas, apostle of "Rule Britannia" one would suppose the Mahatma, apostle of "Rule India," entirely down and out. Actually, Gandhi, a tense, passionate ascetic, usually clad only in a loin cloth and a sash, was easily the dominant figure of the last Indian National Congress. The...
¶ Fugitive Occidental missionaries from the interior of China, to a total of about 1,200, were at Shanghai, during the week.
† "Chang of Shantung" (Chang Tsung-chang) against whom Li mutinied last week; and the awful, potent "Chang of Manchuria," the only Chinese war lord with an army equipped in really Occidental style.
At Fez, Capital of the French protectorate over Morocco, a French court martial sentenced to death last week a German who was perhaps the most striking Occidental in the Moroccan war between Abd-el-Krim and the French (TIME, May 11, 1925 to June 7, 1926.)
¶Polygamy has been slowly dying out in Turkey for more than a century, because of the inability of modern Turkish husbands to support plural wives in the style and under the economic conditions of today. An analagous case is the decrease in the amount of food on Occidental tables...