Word: chinaman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...General Chang, Super-Tuchun of Manchuria. The former, as shown by his attitude during the abortive Monarchist coup d'etat of 1917, is a loyal Republican ; but Chang is at heart a Monarchist. What would happen, therefore, when the latter heard of the happenings at Peking, not one Chinaman could tell another...
...glitter, and the chance to exhibit a well-shaped calf. Indeed it seems strange that diplomats and statesmen have not recognized the truth of this before, and spared their dignities and their heads by a well-earned distribution of raiment. The American has had his "red-cost", the Chinaman his Manchu queue, the English Cavalier his ground-heard the Frenchman his culottes Descending from the national level even the "Harvard hat" has been its own little storm, center of parental wrath...
...tobacco trade is asking: "Can the Chinaman be taught to smoke? If so, what?" Inquiry reveals the fact that in China the old fashioned water pipe is passing, and cigars are too expensive for popular consumption. On the other hand, the coolie is taking very kindly to the cigarette. In fact, declares President R. M. Ellis of the Tobacco Products Export Co., cigarette consumption is growing in China at an even faster rate than in the United States...
...Squier had nothing but praise for the bravery of the Chinese. Through some blunder, all operating instruments had been left off the relief ship. One Chinaman sat without uttering a word or groan while a doctor cut off three of his toes with a pair of scissors, and after the operation, he thanked the surgeon...
...terrors for the educationists. They had little enough compunction about meeting in a World Conference of Education at San Francisco, and the World Conference had even less hesitancy in perpetuating itself as a World Federation of Educational Associations, with an American (Augustus O. Thomas, of Maine) as President, a Chinaman and an Englishman as Vice-Presidents, and directors of appropriate race for Asia, Europe and America. The Federation is to meet every two years and its geographical sections are to meet every year in turn. There is to be a central office and research bureau which will be established...