Word: welled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...capture of Chefoo last week bode untold evil to the wretched, famine-stricken people of Shantung. Cowed by the scowling marshal, who chews fat Havana cigars and particularly likes to spit brown in people's faces, they could only groan, "How do the wicked flourish!" Shrewd as well as ruthless, Chang Tsung-chang at once ran up the five-barred flag which used to stand for the Chinese Republic ten years ago, but has stood for every kind of despotism since. One or two gullible correspondents, new at the Chinese game, soon described this shameless old flag-waver...
...great enigma continued to be Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang, master of the largest private army in the world (TIME, July 2). He recently resigned as Nationalist War Minister, but last week some of his well-drilled divisions advanced south against the rebels under the Nationalist banner, while the Marshal with his main army moved north into Shantung; seemingly with intent to vanquish the Marshal Chang Tsung-chang who had just captured Chefoo?where the hair nets come from...
About Calvin Coolidge's name last week swirled the names of two great publishers and two editors. Mr. Coolidge was, as usual, impassively the centre. He was the author. His job had been to write a story for each editor. He did, and each paid him well...
...Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, the white-bearded little "man from Maine" whose Saturday Eve- ning Post and Ladies' Home Journal are as essentially sound and quiet as the Maine homes into one of which Publisher Curtis was born. Last week had Publisher Hearst seen Publisher Curtis he might well have been patronizing. The Hearst editor had won the most exciting journalist race of the year, although the field was publisher Curtis': magazines...
...dislikes. They worry about the same things. But mentally Ontario O is two years older than London A. Their case points answers to two moot points: heredity governs emotions; environment, intelligence. Couples planning to adopt orphans and concerned with the children's dispositions, by inference would do well to study their ancestral points. Foster parents intent only on raising intelligent children may pick foundlings at confident random...