Word: chinaman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Scarcely a college in the land but has its little son of Nippon, its quiet Chinaman, its bird-eyed Siamese or swarthy, ruminative Hindu. Scholarships bring to the U. S. hundreds of the best young brains of the Orient. But there have been no Iowa farmboys studying in Tokyo, no Boston freshman at Peking or Madras. The self-sufficient Occident has always assumed the teacher's role in its colleges at home, in its Christian missions abroad. Yet lately there have come missionaries to the Christians from the followers of Buddha, Confucius and Krishna. And last week another reciprocity...
...evening last week a thickset, oval-faced Chinaman with eyes like pinpoints of black steel, strode up and down the station platform at Langfang. The twilight gathered about him. Awed travelers whispered that he was "Little Hsu," the son of "Old Hsu," who was President of China from 1918 to 1922, and that he was the most trusted friend of the present "Chief Executive of China," Tuan...
...mention consolation prizes, for the best name suggested for a 1,500-acre town some real estate men were organizing in the interests of the Rockefeller-McCormick Trust. Names poured in: "Edithwatha," "Edithsdream," "Edithport," "Edithton City," "Lakrenda," "Shadowwood," "Eden Pier," "Krenado Beach" (after Architect Krenn). A Chinaman from Madison, Wis., suggested "Elysians." W. R. Hearst of Maywood, Ill., received a prize of $5 for an inferior title. But a touch of genius fired one Elmer H. Huge of La Porte, Ind. He turned in the name, "Edithton Beach," received...
...have borrowed from the cinema. They scrutinized the houses of these yellow men? miserable places for the most part, tenements, tumbled shanties, bars, and chop suey joints, all dingy, or garish, not one of them revealing the least hint of that exotic magnificence without which, as everyone knows, no Chinaman can exist. But the sightseers were not deceived...
...Chamberlain should intervene by force, should, if necessary, occupy "Canton. Otherwise, said the helmeted islanders, where is our British prestige? How shall we be better than a Chinaman...