Word: cathay
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...among pedants, pedagogs & preceptors. His lectures at Peking, while he held an exchange professorship there in 1919-20, wrought profoundest effects upon Chinese students ?and in China it was the "student move-ment" which produced the present Nationalist Government (see CHINA) now exerting authority over two-thirds of Cathay...
...famed ringleader of the British Coal Strike (TIME, May 10 to Nov. 29). Cried Arch-Tory Churchill: "Last year we had Mr. Cook. This year we have Mr. Chen. One rose among the murky coal pits in Britain, and the other was nurtured in the balmy air of far Cathay. When I say the balmy air of far Cathay, I am not certain that balmy elements have not found representation in both cases. Cook is an orator, Chen is a literary man. Both, curiously enough, seem to draw inspiration from the same fount...
...lyric and satirical, he was adopted by descendants of the Pre-Raphaelite movement-as far as a wildish young man can be adopted. They liked his "splendid invective," fashioned after the Greeks. He carried them away with his fleet excursions into the past-Norman England, old France, Rome, Egypt, Cathay-where, in translation and paraphrase, he brought to life moments and persons of high passion and beauty, each age with its own sharp flavor. Poetry being essentially a personal thing, none may credit nor gainsay Novelist Ford's estimate of Poet Pound. As criticism it is a foolish phrase...
...were about to suffer transformation into a colt. . . . And a very old man who was watching from the pavement decided that the puddle was in truth a magic puddle - perhaps the same puddle Ponce de Leon was looking for when he saw in dreams the goldern city of Cathay. The old man tottered across the Boston street and thrust his hand into the water...
...cart or dirigible, by camel or the Boston Elevated. And when the sun rises in New Jersey on November fifth, it will be shaded by the dust of a caravan from out of the east, more brilliant than any Marco Polo ever encountered on his hike to Cathay...