Word: watching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Amid a crowd of 10,000 Chinese, gathered to watch the parades and incense-burning, Mr. Six produced the inevitable occidental camera and started to take snapshots. The devotees of Mercy mobbed the amateur photographer and beat him senseless. Chinese Christian converts from a neighboring missionary school rescued Mr. Six by kidnapping the leaders of the mob and threatening them with death if the antiforeign rioting did not cease...
Geraldine Bernhardt's hundred million dollar jewels had been stolen. Two days later the police recovered a wrist watch, part of the booty, which had been pawned. Every reputable paper in the city published the story prominently on its front page. In the story it is told why the recovery of all the booty is believed imminent, how the police expect shortly to have all the criminals in custody, how upset Geraldine Bernhardt is. It is also mentioned that the wrist watch had been recovered in the pawnshop of Sol Horowitz, 12 South Orange...
Next day all the papers bear prominently on their front page the following announcement (or its legal paraphrase) : Yesterday this paper published the statement that Geraldine Bernhardt's wrist watch was found in the pawn shop of Sol. Horowitz, 12 S. Orange...
...Lord Fauntleroy, Harry Pratt was playing the part of a girl in the Pudding. Studious application to his art has done a lot for Pratt, and he is now cast for the female lead in "Who's Who". He will probably not open in the Boston performances, where the Watch and Ward Society, though quite, is still looking out for the morals of the young. But he is grand...
When it was discovered that a similar impromptu call had been paid at the Rumanian Legation, where five sticks of dynamite and a fuse were discovered in a crack of the doorstep, the Government ordered a close watch to be kept on all Legations and reinforced the police by two companies of infantry...