Word: chinee
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Significance. As may be inferred from the above account, the story does not matter. God the Father in a tunic of blue crepe-de-chine, throned among his squadrons on the ceiling of Mrs. Aldwinkle's best bedroom, does not matter, for Aldous Huxley has made these people, not in the image of the Omnipotent, but in his own. It is the unquiet imp of his own self-consciousness that squirms in each. He capitalizes self-consciousness as a literary idea. Like Jehovah, and better than any man since, he understands the implication of that famed formula...
...outstanding characteristics of Yall is that it does not propose to Americanize Chine, but rather to cooperate with the Chinese in the interest of advancing education in their great country. . . . It was Washington Irxing who called prejudices the inveterate diseases of old nations, "contracted in rude and ignorant ages." We forego the advantages of our birth into an enlightened age if we do not shake off national prejudices as we would the local superstitions of the Old World. In a day when legislators only cloud the sky of international concord, this out-reaching spirit of Yale...
Daniel C. Roper of South Carolina was not at the capital; he was in California with his son who is ill. But Mr. Roper's work is in an advanced stage. It is he who has organized and executed the McAdoo boom. He drives the McAdoo ma- chine. Twenty years ago " Dan" Roper was a clerk in the Census Bureau. He was there for ten years. He came closer to politics in 1911 when Oscar W. Underwood, then a Representative, became Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee. When Mr. Wilson became President, Dan Roper was made Assistant Postmaster General...