Word: rivers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tenth month" (1911) when Chinese patriots exploded a bomb at Hankow which was the signal for uprising that toppled down the Dragon Throne. Last week "Double Ten" was joyously celebrated at the bomb town of Hankow with a splendid procession of water floats on the mighty River Yangtze. Lantern-light processions and patriotic fetes were held in all the major cities of China, last week ? especially at Shanghai, where citizens were doubly jubilant because Chinese census takers had just announced that Shanghai is now the sixth largest metropolis in the world (2,726,046). Celebrants in many a Chinacity...
...leagues away and thereafter the pudgy craft snuggled the land. Over Washington she passed and was eyed by President Coolidge, which was properly reported in boxed press notices. Manhattan viewers had themselves thrilled to vicarious trans-Atlantic flying. Baltimore loomed and was drawn away from Philadelphia and its identifying rivers, the Schuylkill and the Delaware, guided the ship toward Trenton. With Commander Rosendahl at the bridge, familiar upper-New Jersey hillets and meadows revolved like a slow treadmill, until the heterogeneous mass of the Manhattan topography was seen waiting. Manhattan-on-the-roof facetiously commented upon the alcoholic content...
...mansion of their vast farm overhangs the wooded Chagrin River Valley, 15 miles east of Cleveland...
...mistress) makes possible a climax complicated in synopsis but effective melodrama on the screen. James Cruze directed and Rex Beach, who taught many studio writers all they know about making a thriller, wrote the story. Best shot: Renee Adoree in swimming at night in a coal black river. Good entertainment...
...Ophelia joined against the more characteristic symbol of New Haven. But if Ophelia makes a second appearance at the Dartmouth game it will be on account of a misunderstanding between her manager and the great, contented, mascotless majority of students. It is not alone long association of Ophelia, the River, and that Sinking Feeling that is prejudicial to Ophelia's future. It is rather that one simply must be educated to changes like this...