Word: olds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only there, two of the Jap Conquerors were reading the only issues available. ... On the S.S. Kaiping for instance. She's a stinking little coal-tramp, plies between Chinwangtao and Shanghai, British boat, British and Chinese crew, and never leaves China's waters, but out of 27 old and lop-eared magazines in the dining-reading-card-smoking-lounging room, 13 were American of which six were TIMES. Think of it. I know, because we had 48 hours in a typhoon and we had to stay below, so I found and read all they...
...Communists might provoke disorder, try to create a new Centralia* case, was heightened by a riot in Aberdeen, Wash. In this lumber centre with a big Finnish colony, the Finnish Brotherhood scheduled an anniversary meeting. Grays Harbor Communists then scheduled a "Victory Dance" for the same date at the old Red Hall in B Street, two blocks from the Finn Hall. Twenty-five Communists appeared for the dance, huddled in the hall while a crowd of some 400 battered down the door, pulled siding off the walls, tore out the plumbing, smashed the piano, burned pictures of Stalin and Browder...
Until he was 43, he lived alone. In 1931, a tall, pretty, quiet, 30-year-old schoolteacher from Cody, Wyo. named Jane Beck arrived in Peking with her brother on a round-the-world tour. The Becks and the Johnsons had been friends for three generations, so Jane and her brother stayed at the Embassy mansion. The guests stayed on & on, but since that is the way of Peking, no one was surprised -till one day the bachelor diplomat quietly told his friends that he and Jane Beck would be married the next...
...queer thing, jealousy, Vag mused. It sits behind the scenes like old Stockmar, doing its work silently. Rarely does anyone see it operate; even those whom it tears apart are sometimes not conscious of it until too late. Vaguely, Vag remembered reading of termites who burrow unseen within a beautiful and apparently strong house; then, suddenly, the house collapses. It was something like that with people. Jealousy, like a poison--perhaps like a cancer; but worse, since a cancer, if discovered early, can be cured--constantly, subtly tries to gain acceptance in the mind. Once the entering wedge is injected...
About one hundred years old, Vag reflected, is the spirit of German unity. Writers had preceded the 30s, to be sure, and students in the radical universities had given Metternich many a violent headache with their liberal ideas; but only then did they begin to succeed in their boring from within. They succeeded, ideologically; but not in 1830, nor even in 1848, did the Reich become a reality. Not until 1852, when a pilot with ideals of blood and iron took over. And not until 18 years later, when the Prussian army marched into Paris...