Word: various
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rivalry among the various American cities, such as Boston, New York, Philadelphia and Chicago, in their attempts to gain artistic distinction highly amused Mr. John chiefly because the American cities do not go in for exhibiting much contemporary art in their museums...
Judge Payne, the various revolutionary commanders have seized for their own military use entirely too much of the food and money sent to China by the Red Cross and other charities. Therefore it has seemed best to let the thousands of culpable Chinese revolutionary soldiers-and incidentally the millions of innocent Chinese citizens-starve...
...Northwest are great spaces where one may travel for days and hardly meet a fellow traveler. There are wide stretches of fertile land around Ninghsia which were densely populated in the days of the Han Dynasty (206 B.C.-221 A.D.), which are now desolate. But in various sections of this area one may find foreigners entrenched-little, independent kingdoms with their own police, schools, hospitals and wide roads of their own construction...
When the bogus Knights of Columbus fourth degree oath (TIME, Sept. 3) was being circulated, in the heat of the anti-Catholic persecutions last fall, the Knights themselves took various steps to check it. They freely published the true oath. They offered $25,000 to anyone who could prove the bogus oath was used...
Besides a large collection of true paintings the Law School has obtained a group of over 200 cartoons of various British legal lights. They range in importance from the police court magistrate of London, to the Lord Chief Justice, and Prime Minister Disraeli, but all are shown in positions neither dignified nor flattering. They were drawn for "Vanity Fair" by two cartoonists who called themselves "Ape" and "Spy." Proudly looking down on this "rogue's gallery" are oil portraits of Daniel Webster, of the class of 1804, John Marshall, Rufus Choate, of the class of 1845, and James Bradley Thayer...