Word: persons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ceremonial committee, spying the portly dark-complected Samy Pasha in his place of honor on a school-house porch, requested him to depart. She did not "want him around," said Mrs. Reynolds. Insulted, Samy Pasha and his party returned to their hotel. Not until Governor Byrd apologized in person for Mrs. Reynolds' stupid race-blindness did Samy Pasha shrug his smooth shoulders and say, good-naturedly: "It's all right. We forget...
...Seven Wives and 23 concubines of Marshal Chang Tso-lin, picturesque and barbaric Dictator of North China, recently included a thoroughgoing English woman and a slim young person from the U. S. The majority of Chang's wives and concubines are Chinese, but there are two Opposition factions made up of Japanese and Russians. Of late Dictator Chang is said to have paid more attention to opium than to his parliament of wives...
Last week this slender, pale and weak young prince was convalescing by almost imperceptible stages, at Madrid, from an operation upon his mouth which would have been negligible in a person of normal health. A pretense is kept up that the Prince of the Asturias is a "gentleman farmer" much interested in raising crops and breeding hogs; but most of his prolonged sojourns upon his estates are passed in pallid relaxation. Moreover, an inflammation of His Royal Highness' joints has set in of late...
...meet the experiences which come when anyone has practical business dealings with someone else"; thus runs the description of the new course. In brief, the purpose of the study is to teach the men not to be egoists and to realize the value of working with the other person for the good of the whole rather than for personal good...
...charming and well-bred a person as Daphne there was much to despise. For Daisy was not only ashamed of her lower middle class family in East Sheen, but pretended they lived abroad, well away from inquisitive friends. Her profession too-writing heart-to-heart patter for London Sunday supplements-seemed to her so painfully vulgar that she concealed it under the name of Marjorie Wynne. Not that it wasn't good of its kind ("Career or Babies for the Post-War Girl?"), and in great demand for its popular appeal, but that was just exactly why Daisy...