Word: chins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sixty seconds after the opening bell, skillful, durable, ring-wise Lou Ambers was on the floor. Without any semblance of an ultimatum. Invader Jenkins began his Blitzkrieg with a sneak-punch right to the chin. In the second round, just to prove that he had a two-armed attack, the challenger bombed the champion again with a left to the jaw. In the third, it was all over. Finishing him off like a miniature Joe Louis, Jenkins blasted the crown off Ambers' whirling head. It was the first time in his eight-year career that Ambers had been knocked...
...CHIN P'ING MEI-Putnam-(2 Vols...
Chinese legend declares that Chin P'ing Mei (Metal Vase Plum-blossom) was written by a famed 16th-Century Confucian scholar as a satire on the private life of a corrupt official. The official received a presentation copy, fell dead as he finished the last of its 1,600 subtly poisoned pages. No believer in such legend, Arthur Waley, expert on Chinese literature, says the novel's authorship is doubtful, like that of China's other famed novels. He traces first mention of it to a book published around 1600, wherein Chin...
...sort of Oriental Decameron, Chin P'ing Mei tells the story of a rich young rakehell named Hsi Men, of whom it was said that "unless they are concubines of the Prince of Hell himself, they belong to the harem of wealthy Hsi Men." Fretful because he is not ten men, something of a sadist (though a pleasant fellow at times), Hsi is figuratively said to enjoy "spending his nights among blossoms and willows." The details are put much more plainly...
Filled with Confucian aphorisms ("With a passionate man love is like the sun, which follows its course to the west and rises again in the east!"), Chin P'ing Met puts many a simple moral into simpler verse. Extolling the homely virtues, one ends...