Word: chai
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...latter is straightway executed, it is comme il faut for the embarrassed guarantor to commit suicide, and soon. Embarrassed in the Chinese capital of Nanking, last week, was elder statesman Wu Tze-hui. People kept telling him that a man whose life he had guaranteed, Gen- eral Li Chai-sum, the governor of Canton, had been executed-and there were newspapers to prove it. "Fate leaves me no alternative!" cried grizzled Guarantor Wu. "For my worthless neck the cord!" Presently there were Chinese "Extras!" on the street with news that Wu had committed honorable suicide; and then before long there...
...Berlin, as the suave, easy-going Cuban Minister, conducted the soth League Council session at Geneva, Switzerland, with vigor, tact, address. Small Cuba sat metaphorically enthroned over the Powers due to a system of alphabetical rotation which lifts up each nation in turn to the League's High Chai...
...emergence of Canton as a separate Chinese Government was signalized, last week, when the British Governor of Hongkong, Sir Cecil Clementi, received a visit from Dictator Li Chai-sum of Canton and accorded to him every honor. Sir Cecil then prepared to return the Dictator's visit by announcing that he would go himself in full & formal array to Canton...