Word: passing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...north, the Pekingese forces of Super-Tuchuns Chang Tsolin and Wu Pei-fu pushed back the armies of Super-Tuchun Feng Yuhsiang through Nankow Pass to new and probably impregnable lines in southern Mongolia. Thus Peking was relieved temporarily of all fear of reconquest by Feng. The city, now definitely in the hands of Chang and Wu continued to suffer sporadic pillage and somewhat indiscriminate rapine from their exuberant soldiery...
...bodies whose relatives were touring Italy grew needlessly uneasy over headlines in U. S. newspapers: "Vesuvius Again in Eruption . . . Vesuvius Spurts Lava." It was but a minor disturbance in the central crater, indistinguishable by day from below, a cause of no alarm to the government volcano laboratory. Few days pass without some sign of life from Vesuvius, usually a thin column of smoke. Small upheavals of rock and lava do not overflow outside the old crater, which was formed by the last eruption of violence, in 1906. History knows of but two truly cataclysmic eruptions of Vesuvius...
...whose unfounded wrath we can afford to ignore and whose malicious insinuations we can afford to pass by. It would seem that if they have anything to say of a people whom they once hailed as their unselfish deliverers, they at least should speak the language of truth and graciousness. Their statement that we are trying to undermine the independence of France, or that somebody wants to buy France, approaches the absurd. . . . "This constant charge of injustice and usury on the part of the United States is simply not only unfounded in fact, but dishonest in purpose." In France, newspaper...
...Lyons, was moved as early as 836 to discuss the situation in a scathing paragraph: "The actors, the mimes, and the deceiving and infamous joculators are given money to get drunk on, while the poor of the Church are dying in the agonies of hunger " It was a pretty pass. People, apparently, would rather hear some pinchbeck fellow gurgle a roulade than listen to the best constructed sermon. When, therefore, the guildsmen of prosperous towns began to give simple dramas, inspired by the magnificent theatricality of Mass, and evolved from Bible story, prelates everywhere came gradually to value their spiritual...
...yarn (one-tenth of the total U. S. consumption) here. Fabric makers had large stocks of expensive yarn on hand, none the less had to lower cloth prices. As a result one great manufacturer, the American Rayon Products Corp., last week was forced to pass its regular 50? dividend...