Word: sea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...benefit to both the players and spectators. However, no dug-outs will be constructed this year for several reasons. Primarily the construction of dug-outs requires digging several feet into the ground, and the land of Soldiers Field will not permit this because it is nearly as low as sea level...
...unchecked for 36 hours, and was carried to such extremes that many Chinese men and women roamed the streets disconsolate, stripped. ¶ Comparative order was restored on the arrival of the Nationalist General Pai Tsung-hsi, Chief of Staff to the great Nationalist War Lord Chiang Kai-shek (sea below). General Pai received the British, French and Japanese consuls-the U. S. consul pointedly absenting himself. Soon the Chinese commander issued a proclamation calling upon Chinese not to molest foreigners; but in it occurred indiscreetly the term "world revolution" which was caught up and bandied by correspondents (see above...
...Brigadier General Smedley Darlington Butler, U. S. M. C., arrived to command the U. S. marine forces at Shanghai, last week, just as the original orgy of looting quieted (see above). General Butler limped slightly, and correspondents cabled that he seemed in low spirits after his long sea voyage. He said: "There will be nothing but marine good sense in whatever we do in China...
Francis Brett Young, English novelist, will speak tonight in the Living Room of the Union at 7.30 o'clock. His subject will be "The Form of a Novel." Mr. Young is especially known for his books, "Sea Horses" and "The Dark Tower...
...Grez-sur-Loing, France, unable to go among men and hear them praise his music as "greatest in England since Purcell [17th Cen-tury]" and even "ranking with the greatest of all time." He is Frederick Delius, onetime Florida orange-planter, onetime music teacher in Danville, Va. He wrote "Sea Drift" to Walt Whitman's words. He wrote "Mass of Life" and "Appalachia." Later he set Poet James Elroy Flecker's Hassan to music and the splendors of "The Golden Road to Samarkand" filled the Haymarket Theatre for months on end. Sometimes he hears great orchestras playing...