Word: chins
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Professor S. Wells Williams of Yale College says the story of the beheading of Chin Chin Chan, formerly a student there, must be apocryphal. He cannot trace the letter said to have been received, and is certain no beheading could have been done at Hong Kong, as reported, for that is an English province...
...Chin Chin Chan, a Chinese student who left New Haven last year while preparing for Yale, and returned to China, has recently been beheaded in Hong Kong, because he carried on a correspondence with a young lady in New Haven...
...report is going the rounds of the press that Chin Tah Fay, a Chinese student, was turned out of the house in which he boarded because his boarding mistress thought he had a "bad eye." This suspicion proved to have been well founded, for news comes from China that, on his return home, he wantonly murdered his father, and was beheaded...
...dark beauty. Her face was of rather a heavy cast, yet her features were strongly marked. Her forehead was high and exquisitely moulded, her mouth and chin large and round, and her eyes full, restless, and glowing. A rich clear color trembled through the brown of a cheek that had been tanned by exposure to sun and wind. She had the most beautiful hair that any woman has worn since Helen. It was a soft dark brown, rich, thick, and tremulous...