Word: chinawoman
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...Chinaman and Chinawoman of China! . . . you Tartar of Tartary...
...lawyer could have told her that she did not have a Chinawoman's chance of getting it. Washington's Minimum Wage Law was no New Deal upstart. It was passed in 1913. About the same time Oregon passed a similar law. Oregon's law ' was tested in the Courts. The Supreme Court approved it in 1917 by a 4-4 vote, Justice Louis Brandeis (who had helped prepare briefs in the case before his appointment to the Court) not voting. Six years later another minimum wage law passed by Congress for the District of Columbia came...
...Chen Po, young, pert, Sorbonne-educated, happily-married, explained what "dew wife" means to a Chinawoman, as follows: "Dew only exists in the early morning. . . . Dew, therefore, in Chinese sense, means changeableness, unreliableness and temporariness." Poetic though it sounds, calling a lady a "dew wife" is thus tantamount to hinting that her husband is a cuckold...
...flower. . . ." The last story, "The Letter," has a better and grimier plot. A thin, sensitive, charming married woman shoots, kills, a man who, she said, tried to rape her. The court acquits her. Really, she killed him because he had cast her aside in favor of a fat Chinawoman...
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