Word: soldiers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Soon they had broken into the U. S., British and Japanese consulates, robbed, glutted. All the foreign houses except those of Ginling College were looted-the college escaping because a young Nationalist soldier who had a sister studying there arrived with a detachment to guard the campus. ¶ The Japanese suffered most. Several women servants at their consulate were stripped and subjected to carnal violence. The Japanese consul, who was sick in bed, barely managed to escape with his life, saved nothing but a portrait of his Emperor, the sublime Son of Heaven. Later a Japanese officer, ostentatiously without arms...
...soldier immediately shot Dr. Williams through the temple, killing him instantly, after which he robbed him, taking everything of value, even stripping the clothing from his body...
...traced-from a small co-operative association of newspapers in 1900 to a service with 1.200 member newspapers, 80,000 reporters, 131000 miles of leased wires and a $7,000,000 annual turnover. In 1920 Mr. Stone resigned. In 1921, on the occasion of the entombment of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington Cemetery, began a "splurge of flowery writing" the like of which Mr. Stone would never have permitted. President Harding's death, Woodrow Wilson's death, the deaths of Rudolph Valentino, Floyd Collins and Luther Burbank, were cited as other points of departure for "flights of puerile...
Three new diamonds have been prepared in various corners of Soldier's Field to accomodate the teams of the two leagues. Some equipment, probably balls, bats, and gloves, will be given out by the H. A. A. in the Locker Building this afternoon...
...situation would be discouraging in the extreme were it for the growing conviction among intelligent observers that disarmament can from now on be but a gesture under any circumstances. Within the last fortnight, Mr. Wells, of singular prophetic accuracy, has declared that no soldier is as obsolete today as the Greek phalanx. General Pershing said that the recognized armament of any nation in the next war will have nothing to do with its success or failure. And even Mr. Coolidge has been quoted to the effect that God and righteousness are the only true national weapons of defense...