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Things had been going quite well. Up in Hupeh province government troops had just put to flight Communist General Ho Lung. They captured 1,800 of his soldiers, made them kneel in long rows while down each row tramped a government executioner with a great, broad sword. Swish, swish, swish, 1,800 heads fell. General Ho, as he fled, dropped like hot cakes Miss Esther Nordlund, 34 (and Miss Augusta Nelson, 50), missionaries (TIME, May 4). They reached Hankow safely last week, gave the first account of little-known, muchdreaded General...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Revolution | 5/11/1931 | See Source »

That magic sentence untied Secretary Stimson's hands, enabled him to swish Liberia for President Hoover as he swished Nicaragua for President Coolidge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LIBERIA: Sound Swishing | 1/19/1931 | See Source »

...Correcto," said the watchman, "but the ghosts in Dolores go 'swish-swish,' never 'woof-woof,' therefore I shoot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Oct. 28, 1929 | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

...Swish-Swish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Oct. 28, 1929 | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

...only a grandmother now," said Marie of Rumania to a U. S. visitor not long ago with a resigned, gracious swish of her mourning veils. But last week everyone knew that Her Majesty hoped to be elected one of the three Regents of her grandson Boy-King Mihai, in succession to Regent George V. Buzdugan who died fortnight ago of uremia and inflammation of the lungs (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: New Regent | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

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