Word: chinaman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...system. Even for those who were favored, hard feelings persisted. One towkay recently told a Malay official: "If it weren't for the Chinese, you Malays would be sitting on the floor without tables and chairs." Replied the official: "If I knew I could get every damned Chinaman out of the country, I would willingly go back to sitting on the floor...
...search in Australia's history. Skindivers plunged deep below the surface. Flying in from Canberra, Zara Holt walked for hours along the beach, keeping her own lonely vigil and suggesting a few places where searchers might look for the body. "Try the Pope's Eye and the Chinaman's Hat," she suggested. "They are two bad pockets of rocks right in the middle of the current." But there was nothing. Though the police vowed to search indefinitely, Holt's body-likely carried away by strong riptides-may never be found...
...leave!" Later, he started like a string of Chinese firecrackers: "Hello, folks, this is Bob Pepsodent Hope." Pow, pow, pow-joke, joke, joke. And a lot of them were dogs, dogs, dogs. Some friends "had a very exclusive wedding," went one. "They threw a Chinaman with every grain of rice." Or: "I want to tell you, ladies and gentlemen, that we're broadcasting from NBC's new Hollywood studios ... a big beautiful building. They tell me it cost more than Mrs. Roosevelt's annual train fee." And the one about the excessive gadgetry in the new cars...
...future of kiltmaking, nothing would please Bonchy more than to swing his company's skirts into places where kilts are never worn. Says he: "I'd love to see every Chinaman wearing a kilt." But until that unlikely event occurs, D. & H. Cohen will produce kilts only for women-and leave men wearing the pants...
Overland Hole. The two stories and his poem Plain Language from Truthful James, in which Ah Sin the Chinaman beats a table of U.S. poker players at their own game, have found permanent lodging in all the anthologies. Harte himself was astonished at the success of the poem, which was republished in papers and magazines all over the country. He had stuffed it into one issue of Overland merely to fill a hole, and ever after wished that he hadn...