Word: portes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Shortly afterwards, Leys and Plumer returned to Seattle, where they separated. The former became a seaman on the "Bay State" bound for Yokohama, Kobe, Shanghai, and Hongkong. It was at the last port that he went ashore, lured by the prospect of work because of the shipping strike which had just set in and which later became a serious boycott. Leys worked with coolies, attained the dignity of winch-driver, and later made out to the ships daily to cargo with his gang of riff-raff and strike-breakers, returning at night under a pelter of stones from the strikers...
...regards the British concession areas in China, we are prepared to enter into local arrangements according to particular circumstances at each port, either for the amalgamation of the administration with the adjacent areas under Chinese control, or for some other methods of handing over the administration to the Chinese while assuring to the British community some voice in municipal matters...
Burly of stature but impeccably sleek, the Earl of Birkenhead vacationed last week at Funchal, balmy and (in winter) fashionable port-city of Madeira. Careless of his dignity as Secretary of State for India and a onetime (1919-22) Lord Chancellor, the Earl rode about by day in a canopied sled drawn by bullocks-the peculiar means of transport on this Portuguese isle. At eve, Lord Birkenhead dined, naturally at one of the great hotels-the same in which George Bernard Shaw stopped when he visited Madeira, two winters ago. There the dancing master who taught Mr. Shaw to tango...
Foochow. Nationalist soldiers looted the mission quarter of Foochow, a sizable southern sea port, abducted hundreds of Chinese orphan girls cared for by the missionaries, and forced the Spanish Bishop Aguirre to flee by sea to Hongkong. British and Y, M. C. A. missions were also looted...
George Bernard Shaw, playwright: "It was after a dinner last week at the London home of Lady Utica Beecham (who is separated from her husband, Sir Thomas, eccentric, music-loving son of the late pill magnate, Sir Joseph -TIME, Nov. 15). Having finished our port and cigars, we gentlemen strolled into the drawing-room, disposed ourselves variously and engaged the ladies in what passes at such gatherings for conversation. There came, as there always comes, when celebrated authors, statesmen and clerics are present, a lull. Leaning negligently against the mantelpiece, I seized the occasion to muse audibly, 'I have...