Word: chinaman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...descendant of Norman pirates, Porter Sargent is no Anglophobe, believes that "an Englishman, at his best, is the finest creature nature so far has produced, with the exception of a Chinaman at his best." But much as he loves Englishmen, he loves debunking more. Says he: "I don't expect ever to discover Truth, but I do believe that I can uncover un-Truth...
...Chinaman...
...that nasty article about "Taboo Words" [TIME, May 2] was "newsworthy," I'm a Chinaman...
...member of his race does the saying "poor as a Chinaman" apply less than to Joe Shoong. His 1937 salary was $141,000; National Dollar dividends brought him $40,000 more. (He and his family own a comfortable 51% of National Dollar stock; most of the rest is owned in small lots by various less affluent Chinese.) He has one daughter at Columbia, another at Stanford, a son at a preparatory school, and he has built a school for some 350 children in the Cantonese village in China where his father was born. He lives in a large stucco house...
...meaning of the Neutrality Act, and he and Secretary Hull had resolutely made up their minds not to know anything about any Sino-Japanese bloodletting, for declaring a Neutrality Act embargo would deprive defending China of needed supplies, have little effect on Japan. Rather than kick old friend John Chinaman when he was down, Franklin Roosevelt had decided to overlook the fact that he was taking an awful drubbing...