Word: southerners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Feng Yu-hsiang, onetime "Chinese Christian Soldier," whose military affiliations, as always, are uncertain, but who has two armies, one to the north-west and one to the south-west of Peking, and for the nonce is backing the Nationalist or Southern cause...
...year, is now under the direction of Professor Harlowe Shapley. W. J. Luyten is carrying out the study of moving stars. Two stations for observation are maintained--one at Cambridge for the study of the northern hemisphere and one at Bloemfontein, South Africa, for the study of the southern hemisphere...
Black Velvet. This title is descriptive of skin pigments in blackamoors, the play descriptive of events surrounding the liason of a nice white boy with a jaunty yellow girl. It intends to describe a changing era in the South. The central figure is a bewildered Southern gentleman with whiskers, who finds that the Negroes no longer obey him; that reverence and elegance play little part in modern industrial life. These various factors are knit into an uneven play which kills four people (three offstage) every evening. Arthur Byron,* usually urbane and neatly pressed, does well with the bewhiskered ancient...
...west, Oregon won from Pacific 32-6; Southern California from Santa Clara, 52 to 12; while famed Stanford lost to St. Mary...
John Paul cruised in southern seas, beat a mutinous sailor who later died. A murderer by gossip, John Paul finally set his course northward, took Jones for a last name and came to North America. In 1776 he was made a Captain in command of a flagship. A narrow elegant figure, he stood on the bridge of this vessel and set out to make the world ring with his name...