Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chinese press of Peking told excitedly in dainty, complex characters, last week, strange news of the great but fallen Scholar War Lord...
...high monastery in remote Tibet. They read of how Wu Pei-fu had journeyed thither from China, traveling by wearisome forced marches until he reached the monastery and was welcomed by its Buddhist brotherhood. Even in so remote a place, men know that Marshal Wu Pei-fu was War Lord of Central China prior to his overthrow by the Nationalist Revolution (TIME...
...story hinted at much stately converse between Wu Pei-fu and the Buddhist abbot of the monastery. The War Lord who has been all his life a scholar, and a great one, was said to have explained that his last military followers had finally deserted him, and that he wished to become a bonze or Buddhist monk and to retire utterly from the world. What good Father Abbot would reject the chance to garner such...
...War, of course, aided the company's growth. Although he sold copper to the Government at half its market value, the Great War demand and the elimination of costly selling-methods gave the corporation great profits. But they were only incidental to his War efforts. Incidental also was the construction of 30 miles of railroad in Wisconsin. The road cost $12,000,000 and carried the precious spruce, logged in Wisconsin, to the tracks of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad, which carried them to the airplane-factories which Mr. Ryan was supervising for the Government. That...
...else? But Alice Liddell, like all the other people in the world, lives in a wonderland where summer afternoons remain remembered only, and where there are not always boats and lawns and lovely stories. Alice Liddell, married, grown old, the mother of two sons who died in the War, had very little money; she had to sell the book her friend had given her. Going away from Sotheby's auction rooms, she looked as startled as the other Alice might have looked on the Queen's Croquet Ground...