Word: young
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...many weeks owners of genteel geisha houses in the vicinity of Tokyo have suffered robberies. Cash boxes were rifled, many of the young ladies' valuables were stolen. The geisha houses complained bitterly...
...case. Last week the mystery was solved. Detective Tokuda of the Central Office discovered a gold ring and wrist watch belonging to one of the robbed houses in a pawn shop. Quickly he summoned a cordon of police, rushed at dawn into the home of Toyoshi Nakamura, a young chauffeur. Faced by scowling gendarmerie, Chauffeur Nakamura confessed all. His duties kept him busy from 5 p. m. until dawn, he said. He had robbed the geisha houses for money with which to attend dance halls and amuse himself in his spare time...
...Soong Dynasty" was a frightful term to use to the President of China's earnest young Republic. By it Marshal Feng meant the governing group which has ruled the Nationalist Party for so long; a group headed by Finance Minister T. V. Soong, President Chiang Kai-Shek, Minister of Commerce H. H. Kung. The last two are both married to sisters of Finance Minister Soong. Potent Mme. Sun Yat-Sen. Dr. Sun's widow, is another Soong...
...Tillie Anapol's baby son was hospitalized for diphtheria. She demanded to stay with him, but was of course ejected. She thereupon got a ladder, placed it against a window of the isolation ward, spent five nights and days on the ladder top, soothing, encouraging, comforting her young. Press photographers, marveling at such devotion, came to take her picture, drove her away...
...kill his mother at her own pleadings, or to let a painful cancer kill her, was the problem put to one Richard Corbett, intelligent young Englishman. The two, since his father's death, had lived together in southern France. Last November Mrs. Corbett's cancer became unmanageable...