Word: worldness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...always laughed at a black man. He worked with Dockstader's minstrels, then for the Shuberts. He was the first minstrel to get down on his knees when, in the chorus of a song, he came to the word "Mammy." Now a multimillionaire, third* richest actor in the world, he remains capricious, moody, fond of asserting his independence and of practical jokes. He likes to take long motor trips without planning them, starting at night for some distant point and singing on the way. His companions are usually less important showpeople who laugh at all his jokes. He gives...
Last week the Welsh Royal National Eisteddfod was held amid the bowers of Sefton Park in smoky Liverpool, most populous with Welshmen (75,000) of any city save London. From all over the world went humming Welshmen, chiefly of course from the mine-scarred valleys of Wales. There were more than 500 from the U. S., including the famed Anthracite Choral Society of 172 mixed voices from Scranton, Pa. Two girls went all the way from California with their grandmother, aged 74. Others journeyed from Australia. They were welcomed by their most distinguished countryman, David Lloyd George. Then rose...
...mile away the beaters started moving toward them, a line of schoolboys and gillies waving flags, beating dishpans. Crouched in the bottom of each butt was a nimble-fingered loader, ready to hand each "gun" his second weapon. Began the fastest most difficult wing shooting in the world. Flying 50 miles an hour, like rocketing black bullets, grouse zoomed straight over the butts. Hundreds of birds fell, hundreds more escaped to fly again another...
...thrashed out between Soong and Chiang, the banker's principal grievance had to do with the conqueror's reluctance to cut down Nanking's stupendous military forces. Today Nationalist China has the largest standing army in the world, though by no means the most effective. A rabble nearly 1,500,000 strong are the soldiers of Nationalism, nondescript, ill-drilled, often ragged. Some of their commanders are hired bandit chieftains, others are feudal "War Lords" left over from previous regimes. The cream are spruce, young, "intellectual" Nationalist generals. But the whole motley gang have costly appetites...
...happy man last week was Chaim Weizmann, goateed London chemist, president of the World Zionist Organization. Fortnight ago, when 322 delegates gathered in Zurich for the 16th biennial Zionist congress, he was less happy. For he was the appointed spokesman of a great project and in the bearded assemblage he saw many a gleaming, antagonistic eye. The project (in motion for six years) was the foundation of an All-Jewish Union, embracing both Zionists and non-Zionists, for the upbuilding of Palestine. "A Jewish national home, . . ." said Dr. Weizmann, "is no longer the concern of Zionists alone. It must...