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...Tiger," which originated in his drooping mustaches and his striped mandarin robes.* In the Tiger Room of his Mukden palace he kept enormous stuffed Manchurian tigers, served cups of what was supposed to be hot tigers' blood to his guests. More important, he was one of the shrewdest, wiliest politicians in the East. Secretly opposed to Japan, he hypnotized Japanese officials for years into keeping him in power in Manchuria. With other walrus-mustachioed brigands of the Manchurian steppes as his generals he built up a powerful army, built a tremendous arsenal at Mukden, extended his sway to Peiping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Almond-Eyed Fascismo? | 8/22/1932 | See Source »

With a Scottish peer and a confectioner to accompany him*, that wiliest of Welshmen, David Lloyd George, went to No. 10 Downing Street last week to talk Unemployment with Prime Minister MacDonald and his ministers. Britons soon had rumors aplenty to take their minds off the blistering "American heat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Unemployment Plans | 9/8/1930 | See Source »

...Even wiliest Oriental priests and brigands were baffled, last week, by the double and triple crossing executed by Amanullah of Afghanistan. Was he still king or wasn't he? As first unfolded by the world press, the story was of deceptive simplicity. It was a good story, too, for headlines blared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFGHANISTAN: Coup d' Escape | 1/28/1929 | See Source »

...pretend practically every disease, every deformity known to medicine. Some women want children so badly that they actually become bloated. The stigmata frequently reported seen on religious exaltes are hysteric in origin. If the hysteric's malingering continues long the simulated infirmity may cause actual disease. Only the wiliest of doctors can discern the hysteric's true state. And only the most patient can cure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Hysteria | 9/3/1928 | See Source »

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