Word: ch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus the capital made holiday. In so doing it also honored the memory of Ch'ii Yuan, high-minded poet and statesman of Chu, the feudal state that covered much of central China some 2,200 years ago. Ch'ii sought vainly to ferret corruption from his government, was slandered and exiled. Heartbroken, he composed his famed poem Li Sao (Dissipation of Sorrow), then on the fifth day of the fifth moon drowned himself in the Mi-Lo River. Legend relates that kind fishermen tried to recover his body, thereby began the custom of the dragon-boat races...
Indisputable Nitwits. Some of the most ominous pages of Between the Thunder and the Sun describe the prewar scene at the Château de 1'Horizon, a villa near Antibes on the south coast of France. The chateau belonged to graciously aging U.S. Actress Maxine Elliott, aunt of Sheean's wife, Diana Forbes-Robertson. Like the society of which it is a symbol, the chateau perched precariously on a rock between the railroad tracks and the deep blue...
...MURDER-William Rough-ead-Sheridan House ($2.75). Excellently written studies of eight famous 17th-and 18th-Century murders, including Pennsylvania's notorious Châpman murder (with arsenic: 1831) and the sensational French killing of the Duchess of Praslin by her husband (sharp and blunt instruments: 1847). Author Roughead's calm, intelligent, slightly old-worldly accounts (Twelve Scots Trials, Enjoyment of Murder) have made him, in Dorothy Sayer's words, "the best showman that ever stood before the door of a chamber of horrors...
...After watching the Eighth Army knock out 52 German tanks in twelve hours TIME Correspondent Jack Belden wrote: "Tanks! How futile they appear face to face with these ambush-emplaced guns. Like papier máché boxes they are strewn across the Médinine plain...
...relieve DFD's volunteers of their financial burden, a unique fund-raising campaign was launched last week. Brain child of Patent Broker James M. Austin, who has donated some $10,000 to war charities in the name of his famed fox terrier, Ch. Nornay Saddler, the War Dog Fund hopes to enlist as many of the nation's 20,000,000 dogs as possible into an honorary K-9 Home Guard. For $1, a contributor's dog receives the rank of private or seaman, and so on upwards. Some Park Avenue generals or admirals...