Word: stander
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Within 72 hours Last Stander Chang was put to absolute rout, disappeared, escaped in disguise to few-knew-where. Last week he was found to be living at Dairen, under Japanese protection, with a "household" of 35 women, and allegedly with $10.000,000 salted in foreign securities...
Within 72 hours Last Stander Chang's army of 50,000 was put to absolute rout by Nationalist & Mohammedan General Pai Chung-hsi, who took 20,000 prisoners, and barely missed capturing Polygamist Chang as he fled to Manchuria. Rejoicing was general, for Chang Tsung-chang is brutal, a thief, a sadist who loves to lash his prisoners, an old-woman-beater and a young-woman-despoiler, a murderer, treacherous, outrageous, godless (TIME, March 7, 1927). But, as Columnist Brisbane remarked, Chang Tsung-chang has "verve"; and 20 wives and concubines have not rendered him "anemic." As such...