Word: tion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sounding syllables. The bridegroom is known as "edzigonto," the bride as "edzigontino," the best man, "edzigkunolo," the bridesmaid, "edzigkunolino." "Cu vi deziras havi ci tiun virinon kielvian langle-gan edzin on," Rev. Ashley ceased the solemn fluent intonations, gazed inquiringly at the edzigontino. Said she, forsaking virgin existence: "Mi tion volas." Later, the party adjourned to a restaurant where the edzigontino played violin selections, the sole happening of the day not in Esperanto...
Michael Arlen will have his name on two plays, written in collabora- tion. Edith Ellis has dramatized his The Cavalier of the Streets and Winchell Smith has helped Mr. Arlen on a comedy called What Fun Frenchmen Have...
...That fact has been written in fire across the world until not seers alone, but multitudes of plain people of every tongue, tribe and na- tion under Heaven are beginning to see the truth once so incredible...
...short time, he was Foreign Commissar; but, early in 1918, he be came Commissar of War or Commander-in-Chief of the Red Army, a posi tion which he held until last February. The dominating trait of his character is energy. One week he was in Siberia, another at Moscow, another at Sevastapol. Always was he on the move. His discipline made that of the Tsars a sort of mother's love and it was said that every officer and soldier went in terror of his life. So much for his efficiency...
Things rapidly went from bad to worse. What things and how bad they were before they became worse, despatches omitted. At any rate, a situa tion was created at the seaport of Ceiba which prompted the U. S. Government to send the cruiser Denver to the scene to protect U. S. and other foreign lives and property...