Word: slave
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Philippine archipelago known as the Department of Mindanao, stretching to Borneo, was in a state of completely uncontrolled savagery. It was inhabited by Moros ? bloodthirsty, polygamous, Mohammedan headhunters ? who lived in inaccessible fever-infected jungles Their pleasure was to raid, burn, slay, crucify, abduct. Their slave-hunts extended ip to Manila, their piracy for hundreds of miles. Spanish Captains-General, after three centuries of futile effort, had long since retired into a policy of bad-tempered neglect. The Moros ran wild...
...when all too easily they have become victims of man's lustfulness. But they are in reality victims of Man's cupidity and the price he has placed on their souls is but the price of a glass of beer. The cafes of any community are the white slave marts of womans purity and the slaughter house house of man's honor...
There was a ball one night in Washington whither Booth came late. Bessie Hale had dressed especially for him. She was watching, wondering. Meantime she waltzed to dreamy strains with a nice-looking young officer who was also, as many knew, an abject slave to her divinity. This was a tall lad, handsome, courtly. He had begged her hand time and again, receiving her refusals with cheery fortitude. Her parents preferred him to "the player." He used to send her stunning bouquets from the White House conservatory. He was President Lincoln's oldest son, Robert...
...when she was 16. Brantôme says she was more beautiful than a goddess. Ronsard du Bellay and De Maisonfleur wrote poems for her, over which she wept. She wore blue velvet, embroidered with silver lilies. A year later François was King of France, and Mary's devoted slave; after a reign of 16 months she was a widow...
Henceforth when war debats are burdensome, the French can slave the would in their pockets by the though of Mlle. Lenglen's victory. Les Americains can take the gold but their best players can not conquer the incomparable Suzanne. Like the battle of the Marne, the conflict at Cannes serves to reinforce a failing sense of superiority...