Word: orients
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Southwest Central, Edward Mallinckrodt Jr. '00, of St. Louis, Mo.; Southwest, Louis W. Hickey '10, of Dallas, Tex.; North Pacific, Rogers MacVeagh, of Portiand. Ore.; South Pacific. Roy James '09, of Los Angeles, Call.; Canadian, James A. Eckles '10, of Montreal, Ont.; European, James Hazen Hyde '98, of Paris; Orient, Viscount Hyde '98, of Paris; Orient, Viscount Kentaro Kaneko '78, of Japan...
...LIVING BUDDHA-Paul Morand-Henry Holt ($2.50). Spengler and Keyserling have turned toward the Orient for destruction and salvation of the Occident. Far less seriously, Paul Morand, scintillating French diplomat-novelist, shows the East has much to offer the West, and the West something to the East, but that incompatibility of mind and heart will prevent any contact close enough for destruction or salvation...
...appointing a mediation board, President Coolidge averted a trainmen's strike on the Kansas City, Mexico & Orient R. R. at Wichita...
...Manila, P. I., is the only electric chair in the Orient. One morning last week it had four occupants in quick succession. All were stalwart brownamoors, members of the traditionally courageous Moro tribe, Mahometans by faith. While robbing a fellow Moro's house 'they had found it necessary to kill the fellow. Accustomed to sharp-edged violence, all four awaited death with proud fortitude, accepting last rites of their faith from Datu Tahil, a Moro Chieftain staying at their prison for inciting a rebellion on Jolo Island. When they saw the chair, three of the condemned men quailed...
After a painstaking inspection of the city, Prime Minister Andrea Liaptcheff of Bulgaria officially reported that not one single building remained habitable. The famed Simplon-Orient Express, connecting Paris and Constantinople, could not traverse Bulgaria last week. Towns shaken down included Borisovgrad, Russof, Kavala, Komatine, Negotim and Gajecar...