Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...say in effect the enemies of Feng-and they are many, white, yellow,-"But really, you know, Feng has conquered those same cities before, in so many other names. . . . Feng's a traitor, a Judas! Of course the Missionaries like him. He's the only Chinese War Lord they ever converted. But watch out for Feng! He gets his arms from Moscow, got 27,000,000 cartridges. He'll ditch the Nationalists yet and keep Peking for himself...
...Colossus. But the Soviet Government finds it desirable to subsidize Feng Yu-hsiang. He visited Moscow in 1926, and when the Soviet Embassy at Peking was raided in 1927, a warrant having been issued by the Dean of the Diplomatic Corps, there were found documents-Feng's friends say forged documents-which showed that he had received from Moscow 27,350,545 cartridges, 27,970 rifles, 10,000 hand grenades, 11,346 high explosive shells, 640 chemical shells, 3 airplanes. The present Nationalist Government was also originally financed from Soviet Russia; but its present leaders have broken sharply with...
...James A. Stillman.' Having got that down on paper and looked at it, I hardly know how to go on. It's one thing to have fifteen or twenty people shouting a lot of questions at you at once. It's an experience, I might say, that I've got quite used to. But it's another thing to sit down and try to think up both questions and answers...
Enough of this toying. Mrs. Stillman had something to say...
Near the green grass course at Longchamps, France, is a small pond in which they say Sir Launcelot, weary with the weight of his armor, once bathe ". Toward this pond, annoyed by the weight of his jockey, Largo, one of the horses entered in the Grand Prix, last week, cantered wildly. The crowd of gentlemen in tall grey hats and ladies in wide flat hats stared and murmured. They were afraid Largo's antics would unnerve the favorite Flamingo. With Largo off the course, the other horses started, rounded the curve of the turf in the sunshine with Croix...