Word: ing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first the Chinese Government's wiry little Foreign Minister, Dr. Cheng T'ing ("C. T.") Wang (Yale, 1911), vehemently asserted China's "right" to grab the C.E.R. The Treaty of 1924, he pointed out, provides that the Soviet railway personnel must not engage in Communist propaganda, a proviso often flagrantly violated. Right or wrong, however, Dr. Wang changed his tune when the screws of diplomatic pressure were applied. Presently the Chinese Foreign Office announced that...
...Belleme! ... I Saye and I Doe," gets up from the floor, knocks the Negro out, thus proving the naive hypothesis that "though an English gentleman's strength and insensibility might be inferior to those of a Negro, his spirit might be superior. . . . Mind triumphant over matter." Be-ing champion of Europe makes Otho friends again with Margaret...
...Stuff" v. Vodka Sirs: Anent statement of George Reeves-Smith, Esq. (TIME, April 22), that "the vilest, most scorch ing, absolutely abominable drink I can call to mind, is Russian vodka." Let our British friend depart briefly from the legal U. S. mineral water which he intends to stick to strictly for a fortnight, keeping a tumblerful within reach, and try some of our plentiful, genuine pre-War "stuff." VORIS D. SEAMAN Chicago...
...wish to correct the statement made regarding me. I have never been a member of Mr. Ziegfeld's chorus or of any other producer's. I was, however, a principal in four Ziegfeld productions, a featured performer in Arthur Hammerstein's Golden Dawn, and the leading ingénue in the same producer's Good Boy earlier in the season, when I left to again be under Mr. Ziegfeld's management, and am contracted to play the ingenue in his production of East Is West...
Seldom or never before has the representative of a Great Power made-up-as-he-went-along such vital words. Broach ing the problem of how the numbers of soldiers should be reduced, Mr. Gibson said, speaking of the Draft Convention over which the Commission has been dawdling for years (TIME, April...