Word: placing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...posts. Unofficially the peppery Prime Minister expressed his satisfaction that the Laborites have now come out squarely on the issue of social and every other kind of equality for blackamoors. On that issue they can probably be beaten, when a general election rolls round; and one must legally take place not later than next spring...
Readers of the U. S. best seller Bad Girl by Viña Delmar, were intrigued by announcements that the "Season" is now opening at Chile's famed watering place, Vina del Mar. Authoress Delmar's publishers, Harcourt Brace & Co., state that they are informed concerning her as follows...
Since some of the ceremonies would take place in temporary buildings, imitative of a remotely bygone age, these had to be especially constructed at Kioto, ancient Capital of Japan. The hereditary families of workmen and carpenters, who from age to age erect these buildings, naturally came high-because of their unique, hereditary purity. It was easy to spend over 16 millions of dollars...
...nominal husband of a girl whom Mr. Crispin wants to torture. An impulsive young Englishman who loves her, plots to rescue her from the Crispin home. He is aided by an ineffectual young American (who supplies the only comic relief by frequent, skillful references to Baker, Oregon, "a place in America," where he has two sisters, Hetty and Jane, "good girls"). Apprehended, the Englishman is bound by the wrists, his back is used as an etching-plate, upon which Mr. Crispin cuts with a surgical scalpel the likeness of an ass. The American is subjected to mental torture. But just...
...Syria. Another crusaders' castle, Krak des Chevaliers, is atop the Aloutie Mountains, near Tripolis, Syria. The place was captured from Kurds by survivors of the First Crusade (1096) and later, under the Knights of St. John, was an important guard of the road to Damascus. It is the best preserved of crusader fortresses, because natives during the centuries have dumped 50,000 tons of manure into its cellars and vaults. French diggers have found the masonry in excellent and representative condition...