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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pressmen could get no aliment from these reported phone-calls and telegrams; but when, next day, a number of Chinamen were shot down, singly, and for no apparent reason, in widely separated parts of the U. S., typewriters stuttered, and a frightening word began to boom in the headlines of even the conservative papers: TONG...
...delicious menace of that word has been long savored by people who have yielded to the importunity of a megaphoning bus-starter and have ridden THROUGH CHINATOWN FOR $1. On such rides they beheld Orientals going and coming in the streets, with the short scuffling step and the furtive stoop which they have borrowed from the cinema. They scrutinized the houses of these yellow men? miserable places for the most part, tenements, tumbled shanties, bars, and chop suey joints, all dingy, or garish, not one of them revealing the least hint of that exotic magnificence without which, as everyone knows...
...conclusion of the tests Major General Johnson Hagood, intered the word "satisfied," declared that anti-aircraft firing was now immensely more efficient than during the War (when French artillery authorities reckoned 10,000 shots to a hit), remarked that the effectiveness of anti-aircraft artillery is not judged by the number of enemy planes it may bring down but by its effect upon the morale of the enemy, forcing him to fly so high that he loses his effectiveness against his own target. Since the targets were only one-quarter the size of actual airplanes, it was felt that...
...there ever were any dragons. He does not even agree with some scientists that tales of them arose from our forefathers' reminiscences of brontosauri and kindred fauna. But he is very polite and does not press his own ingenious theory until the very end. There he also says a word about four modern dragons? Respectability, Bigotry, Cant and Mah Jongg...
...ceremony began with a rendition of Brahms' mournful First Symphony, played by the Philharmonic Orchestra. This over, Prof. Platz of Bonn University acted as public orator, skilfully avoided use of the word "republic." He declared that the "outside world still listens keenly when it hears the name of Weimar, although it is not thoroughly convinced when the Constitution of Weimar is mentioned." The Constitution, he added, is "holding a middle ground between Communism in the East and individualism in the West. "We must," said he, "emancipate ourselves from this mad tendency to permit our national life to become Americanized...