Word: worsteds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Appointed Governor of Shantung Province in September 1930, lithe, redoubtable War Lord Han Fu-chu has slashed through the snarl of official extortion which had made Shantung the worst governed province in China. Today Shantung is called China's best-governed province. Han stands for no nonsense. In his capital, Tsinan (see map), there is snap, discipline, morale. When the War Lord stalks with swift strides about his headquarters, ceaselessly puffing cigarets and ripping out orders in short-chopped Chinese, things get done...
There being no reporters anywhere near Shantung's suddenly created No Man's Land, correspondents hundreds of miles away in Peiping and Shanghai began a guessing game, guessed unanimously that Han would worst Liu. While the battle raged what was the attitude of Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek? Did he back up Governor Han and order Subordinate Liu to submit? By no means...
...critics Walter Pach has respect for the Sargent water colors). He tore into the critics who had praised them, the museums, particularly the Metropoli- tan Museum of Art, that bought them. A week later he gave an exhibition of his own paintings and invited the enemy to do its worst...
...Chicago, a southbound elevated train hit Charles Mead, lofted him over to the northbound tracks where a northbound train lofted him back to the southbound tracks where another train lofted him off the elevated structure to the ground. His worst injury: a broken...
...conjunction with others to the extent necessary to make part of a party organization. ... As we ... note his petty meannesses, his malice toward all of his associates, his claims to ill-treatment at the hands of all his contemporaries, his unctuous self-righteousness, his constant imputation of the worst of motives and conduct, we are moved to something like active dislike of the man. But . . . spotless probity . . . robust Americanism . . . fearless patriotism . . . high statesmanship...