Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Significance. Chiang Kai-shek's withdrawal reduced to insignificance the offshoot Nationalist regime at Nanking which Chiang had headed* placing the parent nationalist regime at Hankow once more in com plete mastery of nationalist affairs. Nominally the "Christian" War Lord Feng Yu-hsiang intervened in the interest of Hankow; but his reputation for treachery is such that Chinese thought that he would soon attempt to seize the whole Nationalist territory himself...
When President Andrew Johnson was facing impeachment charges after the Civil War, Eddie Foy started on his career as a professional entertainer, turning handsprings in Manhattan saloons and "passing the hat" for an outdoor fiddler. When French engineers ventured to dig the Panama Canal, Mr. Foy was shuffle-dancing and tumbling before miners in the mushroom towns of the Wild West. When Theodore Roosevelt called for Rough Riders, Eddie Foy was in bright lights, a symbol of spry clowning. By the time che Kaiser had started for Paris, "Eddie Foy and the Seven Little Foys" had be come a vaudeville...
Wings (Clara Bow, Charles Rogers, Richard Arlen). For propaganda purposes, the U. S. War Department cooperated generously with Paramount in making this picture drama of the skies. U. S. planes are filmed darting against German foes. Clouds below look like white flocks. Only after a ship has started its crazy dive to death do the tiny earth patches rush up to define themselves as gaping scraps of No Man's Land...
...means the "father of the submarine." As early as 1775, Inventor David Bushnell made a practical model. Robert Fulton followed Bushnell's ideas with a Nautilus which dived down 25 feet and stayed down four hours, its crew breathing compressed air. The South used submarines in the Civil War and one sank the Federal warship Housatonic though swamped and sunk herself by her torpedo's explosion. The French Plongeur of 1863 was 146 feet long, driven by compressed air motor. The significant features of the Holland experiments were the in troduction of a gasoline engine and of internal ballast tanks...
AMERICA yelped Monday morning headlines to catch the foggy attention of a population going back to work after the week-end leisure. The population shivered with excitement, devoured the columns. Devouring they found the sentence: "The pilots served in the armies of the Central Powers during the War." The population figuratively and (along the Northeastern coast literally) packed housetops to cheer the oncoming Germans. . . . At 3 p. m. Sunday favorable weather reports sent the word sizzling over Germany that two Junkers monoplanes would start for the U. S. Cornelius Edzard and Johann Risticz, Herman Koehl and Friederich Loose, flyers...