Word: shan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shan, Super Tuchun of Shansi, so-called "model province," who last week threw in his lot with the Nationalists, after months of alleged political bargaining. He has long been considered the kingpin in the Chinese situation; if he joined Chang Tso-lin, then the Nationalist cause was doomed; if he joined the Nationalists, then the fall of Peking might be considered certain and Chang driven back to Manchuria...
...with the Nationalist cause, prepared to advance on Peking from the south-west with three primary objectives: capture of Tenchow on the Chihli-Shantung border; advance on Tsinan, capital of Shantung, by way of Tsining, to the south; capture of the Suchowfu railroad junction to the south of the Shan-tung-Kiangsu border. All these moves were designed to prevent the Shantung and Kiangsu generals from aiding their ally, Chang...
...American morality on and off the films, is quite all right. They are the most straightlaced people in the universe. Anything that gets put over in America we shan't criticize from the standpoint of morality...
...Explorer William J. Morden of Chicago reached home last fortnight with numerous Asiatic quadrupeds for stuffing-ovis poli, ibex, roe deer, gazelles, etc., etc.-and with anecdotes which needed no stuffing. Against all advice they had penetrated the snow-blocked Pamirs into Russian Turkestan, threaded the glaciered Tian-Shan range, crossed Chinese Turkestan and headed for Urga in Mongolia. One evening an armed band of Mongols surrounded their camel train, confiscated all arms and ammunition, waved aside the travelers' passports, tied their hands and soaked ropes to make them cut deeper. The Mongols explained they had never heard...
...Irish mansion as old as the green sod it stood in. He kept bringing in the sweep of Irish history through the ancient family trees-old kings and warriors and battles from Queen Maeve in the day of giants to tart Timothy Healy, and the Fenian men humming the "Shan Van Voght," the Song of Defeat, which is through the book like a soft threat...