Word: changefulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chang Ching-hui was an ambitious man who lived by the sword. Born in Manchuria, he rose to power among the Chinese, who distrust personal ambition and deprecate the sword. Worse, in the end, he betrayed China. But last week, according to Chungking reports, Chang Ching-hui redeemed himself: with a certain nobility, he ended his career...
...Chang was trained to be a soldier. For years he fought under his kinsman, the overlord of Manchuria, Chang Tso-lin. Thereafter, in China's convulsive era of war lords, Chang Ching-hui traded his allegiance for whatever bowl of pottage smelled best at the time. In this respect he was only following the rule of most of the high-domed, mustachioed war lords...
...private at South Carolina's Fort Jackson: Woo Eng Bunker, grandson of Eng, one of Phineas T. Barnum's original Siamese twins (Eng & Chang...
...that while so short a course would not produce experts in any field of the humanities, it would at least encourage critical and constructive thought on social issues. England has experimented successfully with such a course. In China where nine-tenths of the schools and colleges have been destroyed, Chang Kai Shek, encouraging students to remain in school has said...
...feared that a fabulously Asiatic career had ended. The Butterfly's beauty and talent had moved her on & up 1) from the studio of a maker of obscene postcards, 2) to the arms of Henry Pu-yi, stooge ruler of Manchukuo, 3) to the arms of Marshal Chang Hsüeh-liang, onetime overlord of Manchuria. 4) to the position of No. 1 cinestar in China, 5) to Episcopalian marriage to wealthy Christian Vintner Eugene Penn of Shanghai...