Word: soon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...merit. But now-much has changed. "There is danger that the whole business may become a shady horse-trading deal and it may take a long time to sell the horse, if it is sold at all." Obviously nothing was accomplished, last week, in an atmosphere so surcharged, and soon the famed yacht Corsair was off on a little cruise in Venetian waters with her owner, Mr. Morgan...
...stroked, and laid Aside his antihuman grudge - His owner - and Sir Ernest Budge! Egyptologist Budge, whose honors and attributes take up more than a full column and a half in the British Who's Who, is at present preparing a brief, definitive me morial biography of Cat Mike, soon to appear in limited edition from a London publishing house. Other books by Savant Sir Ernest Budge include: The Coptic History of Elijah the Tishbite; The Laughable Stories of Bar-Hebraeus ; An Egyptian Hieroglyphic Dictionary; The Book of the Dead; The Book of the Bee; and The Mummy (Enlarged Edition...
...church door grated. Out to surrender filed a sorry, coughing, spitting, weepy little crew of federals. Their rebel captors, pious, had thus avoided the desecration of bursting open a church. Entering the sacred edifice with loud, exultant hosannahs and cries of "Christ is King" they sat down and soon partook of the feast of the Eucharist. Untroubled by the transitory rebel occupation of Cocula, General Calles wired to President Emilio Portes Gil: "I have the honor to inform you that the traitor Escobar (rebel generalissimo) continues to flee without fighting, and we continue our advance...
...wicked flourish!" Shrewd as well as ruthless, Chang Tsung-chang at once ran up the five-barred flag which used to stand for the Chinese Republic ten years ago, but has stood for every kind of despotism since. One or two gullible correspondents, new at the Chinese game, soon described this shameless old flag-waver as the "Democratic Marshal...
When one honorable Chinese statesman guarantees the safety of another, then if the latter is straightway executed, it is comme il faut for the embarrassed guarantor to commit suicide, and soon. Embarrassed in the Chinese capital of Nanking, last week, was elder statesman Wu Tze-hui. People kept telling him that a man whose life he had guaranteed, Gen- eral Li Chai-sum, the governor of Canton, had been executed-and there were newspapers to prove it. "Fate leaves me no alternative!" cried grizzled Guarantor Wu. "For my worthless neck the cord!" Presently there were Chinese "Extras!" on the street...