Word: chen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...about a solution, but neither of them, aged 12, knows quite what to do. For three marks the butcher's boy consents to exhibit the mystery with a Polish girl, but the author runs away believing the girl is being murdered. When he later undresses the sleeping Mein-chen, a farm girl, he is too overpowered by female beauty to awaken her. Toward the end of the War, still studying Greek, he meets Anna, a trolley conductorette, and proves his love by taking her some of Germany's scarce meat from his mother's cupboard. Anna loves...
...flaying the Nationalist for disrupting a Communist Chinatown meeting with well-aimed, overripe bananas and large juicy watermelons. Aggravation was not due merely to criticism of the raid, of which the Nationalist was most proud. But the Journal editorial referred to Li Chi Ming, wife of Nationalist Editor Chen Po, as a "dew wife...
...insulting quality of the phrase could be gauged from the rage of Mrs. Chen, who called on Editor Chan to be rate him; and from the actions, a day or so later, of eight stalwart Chinamen who visited Editor Chan's office and overturned typewriters, upset tables, smashed chairs, moved Editor Chan to swear out a war rant for Mrs. Chen's arrest...
...Chen Po, young, pert, Sorbonne-educated, happily-married, explained what "dew wife" means to a Chinawoman, as follows: "Dew only exists in the early morning. . . . Dew, therefore, in Chinese sense, means changeableness, unreliableness and temporariness." Poetic though it sounds, calling a lady a "dew wife" is thus tantamount to hinting that her husband is a cuckold...
...toads for materia medica. The dried venom of certain of their toads they give internally to break up colds and apply externally to treat toothache and local inflammations. The apparent effectiveness of Chinese toad venom induced Johns Hopkins to assign its Dr. Hans Jensen and R. K. Chen to examine the dried venom. Last week they reported that...