Word: chinaman
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...warm admirers and follow ers, remindful of the $7,000,000 he has given to charities, schools, universities in Peking and his clemency in pardoning many a Chinaman languishing in jail, called this latest manifestation of Marshal Chang's will the "Magna Charta," the "Chinese Droits de l'Homme...
...Have you heard, sir, have you heard?" he gasped impatiently, "an impudent Chinaman had the temerity to land in an airplane on my parade ground this morning. The scoundrel! What are we coming to, sir? And, when I informed him that he had no business to fly over the British army, that it was contrary to international law, that I should keep his jolly old flying ricksha, and that I was really awfully cross and perturbed and should report him to the authorities?after I had thus unburdened myself, sir, the rascally fellow insulted...
...bless my soul, sir, what did the scoundrel say to me? He said: 'Me no care what you say, Blitishman. Chinaman get back plane plenty quick or whippy Blitish army. How you like that? Chinaman wanty only protect his "interests," as you say in China...
...should not despair that such as Mrs. Barger, (TIME. July 25), Miss Hollis (TIME, July 18), Mr. Downing, (TIME, July 11), should cancel their subscriptions-the majority of TIME readers are proud of TIME-are proud that they are TIME readers. Especially, commend the Foreign News Department and the Chinaman. I have made a detailed study of China and of course, it is flattering to me to see a previous personal opinion expressed in TIME. I should like to correspond with your Chinaman-to know him better. Allow me to second all that Subscriber Sternhart (TIME, July 25), has said...
...Garden, finishing cleaning the scum from around the rim of the water. Occasionally from the dining-room came the sparkle of white men's women, such as many a wealthy tong leader keeps in his saffron incensed chambers. In and out pattered the waiters. Then a strange Chinaman swung through the door. He fired two shots into Li Poy's bent back. Poy pitched forward and his face sank like a yellow teacup into the brown dishwater. A scream drowned in the water which had given him livelihood...