Word: pathe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Governor Liu Huan-yen of Kwangsi Province went out for a stroll in his garden one evening last week, followed as usual by his bodyguard. As the Governor stooped to admire the moonlike beauty of a lotus blossom, a shot rang out. Down he crumpled in the garden path mortally wounded, died later in hospital...
...people have ever studied a tornado, fewer still its nautical equivalent, a waterspout. First instinct of those who have seen this terrifying natural phenomenon, which links heaven and earth with a dark, serpentine Jacob's ladder, is to get out of its path...
Sailors cherish an ancient notion-a de-lusion-that, if a ship cannot escape a waterspout by moving out of its path, a shot fired into the column of water will cause it to collapse. Science has no record of this having actually been done, for the good reason that no cannon projectile (unless perhaps a large explosive shell timed exactly) would be big enough to disrupt the enormous vacuum which supports the water column...
...that of 1925 which stretched a ribbon of destruction across Missouri, Illinois, Indiana. In its wake were 695 dead and $16.500,000 worth of tangled, destroyed property.* Instead of transporting water, tornadoes carry chickens, small live stock, lumber, outhouses. Houses and barns in the path of a tornado are not blown down but explode. The vacuum column draws the air from around the house, the inside pressure forces the walls...
...PROGRESS of youth through the realm of literature is dated by the discovery of the figure which lurk behind each turning in the path. Just as Shelley and the author or "The Way of All Flesh" point the way at certain crossroads, so the smooth-shaven and deeply lined face of Charles Baudelaire at its appointed time looms up like certainty for those who follow the orthodox road to literary sophistication. As the author of this most recent life of Baudelaire notes in his introduction, the "poet maudit" generally appears on the horizon of his American readers during their college...