Word: parents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...editors wanted to spare innocent parent shame...
...They set one parent's shame against the thrill of a million people. It isn't fair...
...dressed romance of New Orleans in 1850. There is a convent maid who tries to seduce a handsome pirate. By this stratagem she plans to evade a villianous, worm-eaten roue who, in the manner of those times, is on the point of buying her outright from a bankrupt parent. Every now and then, Alan Dinehart, acting the buskined pirate, stamps, frowns and mutters guttural imprecations, showing that the little girl from the convent is tampering with a wicked fellow. The difficulty of her position is that the buccaneer has scruples about innocent girls. But she overcomes these. Enchanted Isle...
...wise son," says the proverb, "that knoweth his own father"; it often takes a parent of even greater wisdom to recognize his progeny...
Significance. Chiang Kai-shek's withdrawal reduced to insignificance the offshoot Nationalist regime at Nanking which Chiang had headed* placing the parent nationalist regime at Hankow once more in com plete mastery of nationalist affairs. Nominally the "Christian" War Lord Feng Yu-hsiang intervened in the interest of Hankow; but his reputation for treachery is such that Chinese thought that he would soon attempt to seize the whole Nationalist territory himself...