Word: bamboos
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...York admitted that it was somewhat different from his home town in Africa. Having got quite a big laugh out of that one, the king rambled off into small talk about the Gold Coast. It seems that things are coming along nicely out there this year. The tatoo and bamboo business is booming, gold is, of course, plentiful, and heads are up at par. Its a good thing to hear this too because sometimes there comes a hollow, uneasy feeling that all is not well on the Gold Coast. No one need worry...
...took the journalists (Cox and Oliver). The mob took iron chains. It chained the journalists by the neck. It took them into the streets of Canton and deposited them in a small bamboo cage. For 17 hours the mob hissed, booed, jeered, sneered, pelted, insulted the two animals in the cage...
...foot-bridge which will lead from the lower reaches of De Wolf Street to the ash-dumps in hither Stadiumland, will not be, as popular belief would have it, a light and swaying bamboo structure spanning the Charles. It will not sag and sway beneath the feet of business school men with their green bags, plodding wearily home from classes. All the illusion of a full moon, rising behind the Brighton Abattoir or whenever it does rise to shine on this new rainbow arch, will be shattered by cold brick and cement. It will be made, alas, to walk...
...named Hi and Lo. It had a plot about a Chinese Princess who fell in love with a voice; the voice kidnaped her and turned out to be a prince. It had a very large chorus that shuffled about with very short steps. It had a scene in a bamboo forest...
...witness stand the ex-Governor admitted that Indians had been flogged, but qualified his statement by adding: "Floggings in India are not inflicted with cat-o'-nine-tails but always with bamboo, sometimes with a cane. They are mild compared with...