Word: chinatown
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Finally, for those who end up about three in the morning with a dry feeling in their mouths, Chinatown will fix it with an Egg Foo Yung...
...York. They had camped out in the gymnasium of a settlement house on Manhattan's lower East Side, and earned their keep by replastering the walls, painting, repairing chairs, and building a handicraft shop in the settlement house. They had toured the museums, the Bowery and Chinatown. They had also seen, among other plays, The Respectful Prostitute and A Streetcar Named Desire...
...Francisco's Chinese girls, oxidized by Occidentalism, celebrated the Fourth of July by wearing skimpy bathing suits in the first American-style beauty contest ever held in Chinatown...
...Chinatown. Children, they agreed, are easiest to handle, not only because the little innocents are used to being led around by the nose anyway, but also because they are not automatically prejudiced, like many of their elders, against unfamiliar sights. The adults are apt to be casual but hostile. They often seem to "feel the museum's educational duty is comparable to a swift tour of Chinatown...
...Even in those days, the British got around. Long-Arm's mother was an English girl called Gyda, who was the daughter of King Harold. † When it grew too narrow, an outer wall was built around the merchants' quarters, known as Kitai Gorod (or Chinatown), a name picked up from the Tartars. Later, two even larger walls were built-one of white stone (which gave its lame to Bely Gorod, or White Town, where the Czar's servants lived) and a wooden wall (which gave its name to Zemlyanoi Gorod, Wooden Town, for workmen and soldiers...