Word: quieting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Along the Chinese battlefront west of Shanghai all was suspiciously quiet last week. Suddenly the subordinate Northern general* in command of Shanghai's immediate defenses went over to the Southern enemy, ordered the 2,000 troops under his command to withdraw back toward Shantung whence they came only a fortnight ago (TIME, March 7). Simultaneously the Southern generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek launched a swift attack to cut the Shanghai-Nanking railway at Soochow. The fall of Soochow (reported but unconfirmed) would cut off the Northern armies of the "two great Changs"† from hastening to defend Shanghai and leave...
...amorous fifties, and Miss Louise Galloway, whose guardian aunt evades the obviousness of a "character part," Miss Brady's support is none too good. But Miss Brady is one of the few actresses who can carry a play by her own individuality an ability. Playing in a quiet manner, much different from her hectic incoherence of "Bride Of The Lamb", she is splendid as one of the girls you forget to remember. The moral appears to be that husbands are a necessity and a girl can't remain respectable and unmarried
...back the British concession at Hankow from the Chinese Nationalists who recently seized it by mob force (TIME, Jan. 17). Sir Austen made public, last week, the secret text of the present Chino-British agreement concerning Hankow (TIME, Jan. 24 et seq.); and this was found to be a quiet peaceable undertaking to administer Hankow in future by a Chino-British Council on which Chinese would slightly predominate...
...certainly one of the greatest libraries in the world, and far excels any University library I have ever seen. The facilities it offers are the most striking things about it. Every professor and many earnest students can have his study there in the stacks in perfect quiet and within reach of all the books he may need in his work...
...check the general strike at Shanghai, troops loyal to Sun Chuan-fang began to seize and behead strikers picketing in the streets. Excited correspondents variously set the number of strikers decapitated last week at between "46" and "1,113." The effect was to quiet the 50,000 workers, who remained on strike, skulked in their homes...