Word: carly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chinese soldiers who captured me handcuffed my wrists and put me in a freight car. . . . "When they led me up before Chang Tsung-chang [minor anti-Communist War Lord] I said: 'Well, you have searched my baggage and found nothing [incriminating], so why hold me a prisoner...
...male nurse then took His Majesty's arm, helped him firmly into the royal private car...
...Swedish locomotive, trim and bright, puffed forth from the Turkish Capital at Angora last week, and drew a salon car in which rode the great Ismet Pasha swiftly along 240 miles of new roadbed, linking Angora with the hinterland of Asiatic Turkey...
Bingham Robbed. U. S. Senator Hiram Bingham, onetime Governor of Connecticut, big-boned Honolulu-born Yankee, explorer, archaeologist, World War aviation Lieutenant-Colonel, onetime Yale professor, and father of seven sons (one of whom is studying Chinese in Peking) was set upon in his private car by Chinese soldiers last week, in Honan Province...
...soldiers, itinerant northern mercenaries, took from Senator Bingham $1,000 in cash and his $500 motion picture camera. He, often imperious and peremptory in the Senate, was considered lucky last week to get the private car in which he traveled shunted back to Peking, whence he had ventured out to view the battle area...