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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...proposal permitting any Government to ship arms to any other Government was passed. Britain thereupon introduced an amendment giving Governments the right to search ships suspected of carrying arms designed to foment trouble against them, citing the case of India where arms-smuggling was the cause of constant strife on the Northwest Frontier. The amendment was badly received and discussion was adjourned...
...such cases, he wrote bad verse. He sought liberation on the stage, in journalism, in writing advertising; but found it only, invariably, in willing women. Eventually that escape became familiar; unnecessary. Kenneth settled into his harness, comfortably drawing a wife and two children. Another account of mediocrity in search of an image deserves attention only because Author Smits can, indubitably, write...
...Pueblo, Col., hawks attacked men working on a church steeple, tore ears, clawed cheeks, pecked polls, forced them to flee. Two detectives, sent in search of the hawks, captured them...
Later in the year the explorer went on a long trip in search of the famous, musk ox which inhabit the Polar region and feed on the frozen vegetation which grows in the bare spots of this country. He showed the first moving pictures ever taken of these rare animals, encircled by the Captain's Esquimaux dogs which played hide and seek with them, some times however getting caught on the horns. "I've always wanted to ride a musk-ox," said the speaker, "and I found out what it would be like last spring. We caught a young...
...Political enemies continue to search for something to condemn, which would indicate that their search of more than 30 years is still unrewarded...