Word: pekin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...swearing, the manure piles, the pigs in the back-yards of French peasant cottages--all these hark back to former efforts. The opening scenes in Pekin and the Philippines started the picture in an extremely fine manner. The happy-go-lucky life of Quirt and Flagg among the women of the town was vividly rendered. In fact few domestic pictures have been so full of well-handled and sensuous scenes as was this one. From the Philippines the picture jumps to France, and Flagg, now a captain, is in the throes of another love affair from which he will ultimately...
...months Chang has marched 600 miles; and although his government has not yet been recognized by the powers, it is at present the most influential in China. I think that Europe will have to recognize this Canton government sooner or later; and when this takes place, the present phantom Pekin government will vanish entirely...
Captain Dollar arrived in Boston on Monday, on the President Hayes, one of his ships, from a business and inspection tour of the world that has taken him to 462 ports. In China, he penetrated the interior in a trip from Pekin to Hankow, a distance of 600 miles, despite warnings that he might encounter difficulties arising out of the oivil...
Professor Pelliot is especially famous for his valuable collection of Eastern Inscriptions. While in Pekin in 1900, he went through the slege of the legations. Later, he was appointed by the Geographical Society and the Academic to conduct an achacological exploration in Chinese Turkestan...
Much can be done, if only it doesn't rain. There's the Pekin Government to overthrow as usual. True, no one knows exactly why the government ought to be overthrown. It hasn't passed a prohibition law, or denied that all men are born free and equal, or declared for municipal ownership of laundries. But why be pedantic about such matters? It's the principle of the thing that counts--principle and force of habit. In June every Chinaman just naturally marches on Pekin...