Word: chinaman
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...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...
...world is learning the lesson that collectivization is nothing but chaos," he explained. The average Chinaman, Clark noted has loss to eat under Mao than he did under Chiang Kal-Shek...
...reasons for the struggle seem decidedly artificial from the start. Shlink a Chinese timber dealer, purposely provokes a fatal quarrel with George Garga, an employee in a moth-eaten lending library. When Garga refuses to sell his opinion of a book to Shlink and his three thugs, the Chinaman concludes that he is a man of spirit an man worthy of his enmity. Garga takes up the challenge to combat without knowing why: "The fight is on with no holds barred. If you have a reason I'm sure it's a rotten one. . . . .I understand nothing but I accept...
Died. Benjamin Allyn Jones, 78, Calumet Farm's folksy, foxy trainer of six Kentucky Derby winners, including two holders of the Triple Crown, Whirlaway and Citation, whom he considered respectively his favorite and his greatest ("a Chinaman could train Citation"); of a heart attack; in Lexington, Ky. The Missouri-born banker's son launched himself as an owner-trainer-breeder on the Midwestern bullring circuit, learned to halter his foals the day after they dropped, fatten them on only the right food ("I can smell hay or feel it in the dark and tell whether horses will like...