Word: provinciale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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But another surprise awaited me in Tun-huang. In the course of my travels through Chinese Turkestan. I had heard reports about a great find of manuscripts which had been made a few years earlier in one of the caves. When I was at Noumchi, the provincial capital, I had...
Simply and factually told the story of Swindleress Hanau is that of a clever woman who sold dull people worthless stock by promising them dividends of from 15 to 80 per cent. She went into bankruptcy, last week, with assets of 22,000 francs ($858) and known liabilities of 219...
Naturally such a play is not for rustics or provincial cityites. Last week the Author-Producer, famed Walter Hasenclever, made the questionable move of taking his farce, Marriages Are Made in Heaven, away from the great German metropoli and out to Frankfurt-am-Main. There good and pious Frankfurters tried...
Around Mexico's great Federation of Labor, the C. R. O. M., there was generated, last week, a menacing crisis. Without prior hint of trouble the Congress of the Crom met and passed two fateful resolutions. The first gave notice to Mexico's new President, Señor...
Liquor being a not illegal commodity in parts of Canada, Canadian government officials cannot directly prohibit exporters from shipping their wares to the U. S. When 30 liquor docks were closed last week at Windsor, Ont., the reason given was not the well known fact that many a shipment consigned...