Word: chino
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...maintenance of peace in the Far East" with "universal advantage thereby accruing to the peoples of the world" including "Chinese themselves." ¶ That Japan constitutes herself the defender of the Far East against Soviet encroachment, for "should the Red movement . . . gain in strength as a result of Chino-Russian rapprochement that would be a serious menace to peace in the Orient, against which Japan must certainly be on guard...
...They may be able to hand us the skeleton of dates and facts, but how can we ascertain from these the underlying causes of any one event and realize its possible effect on us as individuals or as a nation? How can we grasp the significance of this Chino-Japanese war from a mere report of the capture of a new unpronounceable town? How can we ever be expected to be of any use in promoting world peace if we don't know the history and the doings and the hopes of an organization like the League of Nations...
Speaking of words, "cumshaw" (generally pronounced commishaw) is not restricted to shipping men. Chinese servants in the East are all accustomed to getting cumshaw. The Chino cook buys the groceries for the household and if he does not get his cumshaw from the dealer at the end of the month, he buys elsewhere. This practice is generally considered quite ethical. "Cumshaw'' is Pidgin English and evidently is derived from "commission...
...first audience of the ten-week season. Because one may listen for as low as $1.25 (outside the opera pavilion, but still near enough to hear perfectly), there came people in shirt sleeves as well as gentry in starched collars and decollete. First performance was a novelty: Gioa-chino Rossini's highly difficult William Tell which Chicago had not heard since 1919. Ravinia fans were glad to hear once more Elisabeth Rethberg as Mathilde, plump soprano daughter of Tyrant Gessler, and Giovanni Martinelli as her lover Arnold, heroic tenor patriot. Soprano Rethberg's bright Saxon face will soon...
...strike, claiming that vigorous Comrade Rudy had unjustifiably discharged 300 Chinese machinists. In Nanking, officials of the Nationalist Government examined minutely the wording of the Khabarovsk Treaty, started angrily at the number of concessions to Russia to which abject Manchurians had agreed announced that they would not ratify the Chino-Soviet Treaty, summoned placid Mr. Mo for a good talking...