Word: cha
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nostalgia overcomes him. He blows the froth off the new theatrical brew, looks within the stein, and finds it empty. Disappointment has made him crusty, and of the modern shows he applauds only "Of Thee I Sing," the one perfect blend of the "hey-nonny-nonny and the ha-cha-cha...
Coolies, soldiers, and hundreds of round-eyed little boys stood in the market place at Tsinanfu and marveled. Bent over a barrel was the Honorable Wu Cha-ding, Commissioner of the Wenchang Bureau of Public Safety. Standing over him was a strong-armed soldier with a broad wooden paddle in his hand who lustily belabored Mr. Wu's quivering bottom...
Hollywood is volatile, jealous and perhaps sinful. But it is intensely loyal to the little man whom it used to call Charlie before the wide world called him Chariot, Carlos, Cha-pu-rin and as many more variations as there are languages. Had City Lights been a failure, Hollywood would have been personally and bitterly depressed. But Hollywood was not depressed. Neither was it frightened. For though City Lights is a successful silent challenge to the talkies, its success derives solely from the little man with the battered hat, bamboo cane and black mustache. Critics agree that he, whose posterior...
Decorated. Edward Nash Hurley, 65, Chicago financier, Commander of the Legion of'Honor, order of Ta Sho Cha Ho (China), Grand Officer Crown of Italy, by the Vatican; with the order of Knight...