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Word: chinaman (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Candidates Watson and Goff, favorite sons of Indiana and West Virginia, respectively, and neither of them with a Chinaman's chance for anything but private plaudits and party patronage, were both expected to attend, the small-eyed, affable Watson certainly, the less prominent Goff not so certainly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGNS: Grand Old Party | 6/11/1928 | See Source »

...Theatre Guild. Nine acts complete with asides and soliloquies by Eugene O'Neill (TIME, Feb. 13). MELODRAMA THE TRIAL OF MARY DUGAN-Court procedure centres around a chorus girl who seems to have murdered a very dear gentleman friend (TIME, Oct. 3). THE SILENT HOUSE-A Chinaman sharpens his chopsticks (TIME, Feb. 20). THE SCARLET Fox-Willard Mack gets his man (TIME, April 9). DIAMOND LIL-Mae West in a place which, to judge by the shape of her bed, must be a swan-dive (TIME, April 23). FUNNY BURLESQUE-The vicissitudes of vaudeville votaries (TIME, Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Best Plays in Manhattan: Jun. 4, 1928 | 6/4/1928 | See Source »

...SILENT HOUSE-A Chinaman takes his friends for a slay-ride in London (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Best Plays in Manhattan: May 28, 1928 | 5/28/1928 | See Source »

...evident that the persons who think that a Chinaman can not do the "baggage lugging, berth boosting, window opening" task of a Negro Pullman Porter is badly mistaken and can learn a lot about the strength and endurance of a Chinaman, by spending a week-end** out here amongst them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New York Governors | 5/14/1928 | See Source »

...Lunch with Rosemary at Sherry's ends in catastrophe when the people at the next table object to "the colored man." Jâli in anguish escapes to San Francisco Chinatown, where an ancient watchmaker mumbles his philosophy of resignation and indifference. Comforted by the old Chinaman, disgusted with the Occident, Jâli returns to the pomp and ceremony of coronation in Karastra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: East is East | 5/14/1928 | See Source »

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