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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...troops will fight, of course, in the usual spring civil war which flames up each year between North and South China. At present Feng Yu-hsiang is fighting on the side of the Southern Nanking Nationalist Government and against the Northern armies of Marshal Chang Tso-lin, famed semi-imperial Dictator. Thus it will be under the banner of Dictator Chang Tso-lin that the vengeance brigades of Yuan Shih-kai's relatives will fight...
...definitive seemed the victory that President Gomez relaxed the usual rigid Venezuelan press censorship and permitted publication of all details. This was in sharp contrast to his conduct last month in suppressing for days all news of demonstrations by students who marched through Caracas shouting, "Down with the tyrant Gomez...
...angles have recently been written. The leader once considered the head of an ordered, unified whole has now become the great binding force in an aggregation of thirteen turbulent units. He is no longer the majestic, legendary figure of the old schoolbooks, but a human being with the usual quota of human frailities...
...usual, the sun did not set on the British Empire, last week; but during a most unusual period of 36 hours the sun never rose except to beam upon a land where Death stood waiting for some British airmen...
...furniture "on time." Finally they find a drab little apartment where Dot busies herself with pink ruffled curtains, neat drawers of kitchen utensils, and (rather than an abortion) "keeping her baby," to the raucous tune of "something good on the radio"-the delirious Democratic Convention of 1924. Follow the usual pangs and pains of childbirth, told with unusual explicitness. The usual nine months occupy 125 pages...