Word: pretenders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Governor Han. apparently satisfied, withdrew with his forces to Tsinan and Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek could pretend that the "balance of power" in China had been maintained?by a deal. What next? Han, having much expanded his prestige by ousting Liu, may be expected to conspire with his honored guest in Shantung, the famed "Christian War Lord" Feng Yu-hsiang. onetime master of "The Largest Private Army in the World" (TIME, Sept...
...After a lapse of 28 years," wrote Viscount Kaneko, "I do not pretend to repeat the exact word of the President, but their substance made an ineffaceable impression which can never be forgotten as long as I live...
...Brady got his season-opener from his wife Grace George, who adapted it from the French of Marcel Achard. A faithful wife (Jessie Royce Landis), disturbed by her husband's jealousy of her onetime lover (Geoffrey Kerr), hires a ne'er-do-well called Domino (Rod La Rocque) to pretend that it is he who has been her lover. The love of Lorette and the foppish Cremone had been a routine, spiritless affair. Domino makes of it a romantic adventure, much to the discomfort of both ex-lovers, much to the bewilderment of the husband, Heller (Robert Loraine...
...family's 90- year-old plantation home, a quarter mile from "Glenburney." Miss Dockery, unable to make a living by writing verse, moved in as his housekeeper, raised chickens, milked cows. Dana was mentally unbalanced. He used to wander into the woods, let his hair grow long, pretend to be a "wild man." Declared legally incompetent by the courts, he was placed under the guardianship of Housekeeper Dockery. "Glenwood," once a fine mansion, went to wrack & ruin. Chickens, ducks, pigs, goats, dogs roamed at will through its high-ceiled rooms. Filth and trash littered the floors. Old tin cans...
...sketch of the sojourn in America puts these discoveries in their proper setting. Though it does not pretend to be a complete account of a visit on which much has already been written, it will be of interest to those who know only the writings of a philosopher who was gifted of "every virtue under Heaven," and actively interested in the westward course of Empire...