Word: ch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Moonfaced, middle-aged and wearing a shabby black jacket, a north of England "poor man's'' clergyman appeared at the gates of the Château de Cande last week and recited a little piece...
Quietly knitting a dark blue sweater for his fiancée-who last week legally changed her name to Wallis Warfield - the Duke of Windsor sat in the Château de Cande last week through the broadcast of his brother's Coronation (see p. 15). Acting as unofficial press representative, the Duke's faithful U. S. friend, Herman Rogers, issued to newshawks genteel snippets of information: legally changing Mrs. Simpson's name had cost $2.50. . . . Mrs. Warfield had put aside Ernest Simpson's engagement ring for a new emerald from the Duke. ... On Coronation night...
...before which they prayed, the scenic tapestries which undoubtedly inspired them to homely homiletics. Some of the most important of these tapestries figured in the auction's largest sale-$43,000 each for two 11-by-15-ft. genre scenes, woven circa 1500, of country life at the Château d'Effiat in Auvergne. These Tournai Gothic tapestries went to a New York dealer. For $32,000, the same dealer carried off a rare 16th Century Brussels Gothic tapestry, 13-by-21 ft., depicting the story of the Prodigal Son. For practicing prodigals was the sale...
...tone is affected too by what the flute is made of. Thirty years ago most flutes were wooden. Nowadays all but five U. S. flautists use instruments of silver or some cheaper metal. Flutes have also been made of bamboo, ivory, jade, porcelain, crystalline glass, rubber, papiermâché, wax and human bones...
...majority of these stories have social upheaval for their background. Most of the authors are Leftwing; many have been shot or imprisoned. Their names, well-known in China, will be mostly just queer names to U. S. readers: Lu Hsün, Jou Shih, Ting Ling, T'ien Chün, Shih Ming...