Word: orientale
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In the vestibule of his smart Back Bay, Boston, home, George Hastings Swift, 59, a director of Swift & Co., packers, was set upon by three holdup men. Drawing a revolver he fired one ineffectual shot before he was knocked on the head, disarmed, beaten, robbed of a $2,000 Oriental...
As the rural battle line bent back, Chinese General Sun Yuan-liang, seeing it had become impossible to hold Chapei, ordered what remained of this heavily bombed and shelled Chinese shambles to be set afire. Hurling sulphur and other incendiary materials, Chinese firebugs heroically raised an immense pall of smoke...
When the latest shipment of newsreels from the Chinese-Japanese war reached Manhattan last week, the city's Japanese Chamber of Commerce heard a rumor which caused it great discomfiture. The Chamber was under the impression that a shot of captured Japanese aviators exercising in their shirttails might bring...
England." Though Lalla Rookh, a lushly exotic verse-chronicle of Oriental tribesmen and their passions, testified indirectly to a revival of his libertarianism and brought him his greatest contemporary success, he outlived his fame. Harassed by financial difficulties, weakened mentally in his last years, he died in 1852. A statue...
The timorous hopefulness, which we mistakenly called confidence, is shattered again, in part by the European and Oriental tenseness, but in great measure by the actions of President Roosevelt. One need not go back to the first Hundred Days of the New Deal when measure after measure was whipped through...