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Author Charles Pettit, Frenchman, in his 50's, has had a not uneventful life. Educated at St. Cyr (France's West Point), he was a civil engineer in China during the Boxer Rebellion (1900), made a fortune, lost everything in a typhoon. He served as war correspondent during the Russo-Japanese War, returned to Peking in 1912, assisted the Chinese revolutionary party. During the World War he fought for France, was made Chevalier of the Legion of Honor. After the War he fought in Russia for the Bolsheviks. Twice he has been condemned to death; by the Bolsheviks...
...dictated to, nay openly bullied, by the British High Commissioner to Egypt, sleek, superior Baron George Ambrose Lloyd of Dolobran. Last week, in humiliating circumstances, the High Commissioner was forced to resign by his own Government, which at first withheld public explanation. In the House of Commons a teapot typhoon of invective rose...
Staccato footfalls beat a brisk tattoo through the city room of the New York World, down the long rows of worn old desks. A big, vociferous typhoon with red hair, blue shirt, trim tailored suit, swept with a round-the-world stride through the office, greeted a dozen reporters by their first names and vanished through a far door, leaving a strange quiet 'behind him. Herbert Bayard Swope, Executive Editor of the World and genius of its flying columns for eight years, was leaving...
Then in through the door that took the typhoon wafted a mild breeze, smiling slightly, somewhat unfamiliar but with an apparent calm assurance: quick-eyed, with greying hair, quietly energetic, deedy. Ralph E. Renaud, until recently managing editor of the New York Evening Post, went to work at the desk of the departed whirlwind. His duties were to be the same but his title was Managing Editor, not Executive Editor. It was expected that Publisher Ralph Pulitzer would not give Renaud so free a hand as he had given Swope...
Professor Rock writes from Yunnanfu that after going through a "terrific typhoon for two and a half days with a wind velocity of 130 miles per hour and the barometer at 27.90, during which my bed was torn out of the floor and turned over while I was in it," he finally reached Japan...