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...them an eye-opener before they shave, make up their double-decker bunks, sit down to a hearty breakfast served up by corpulent civilian Concessionaire Moe Greenspan, better known as Moe the Greasepan, who loads their stomachs with 80 pounds of food a day, hears more complaints about the chow than a Congressman. By 7:45 they are pushing their yellow biplane trainers out of the hangars for the day's flying. It is still very, very cold as they start the motors, and they shiver and mutter as they catch the blast from the props...
...early one morning last week Japanese warships and transports steamed out of the mist into Bias Bay, 40 miles north of Hong Kong, landed a force reported at more than 10,000 which promptly began moving inland, covered by bombers, across the smuggling country. Soon they threatened Wai-chow, an important smuggling station, and no strong Chinese opposition arrived...
...more notable howls of dramatic history rose in the '903-a farce written by an English actor who knew his trade. It still holds fourth place for consecutive performances (1,466 during its original London run), after Tobacco Road, Abie's Irish Rose, Chu-Chin-Chow. But it has been played oftener, all told, than any drama except Hamlet, was once presented simultaneously by 44 companies, has been translated into at least 20 languages, is the only play that has been rendered and acted in Esperanto. A great dramatic monument is Charley's Aunt...
...English producers have made any plans for new productions; the only fresh play in sight is Women Aren't Angels, a bawdy farce due to leave the suburbs for London this week. More & more producers have turned to revivals of old box-office certainties like Chu-Chin-Chow. Be fore an audience of men in soft shirts, women carrying gas masks, that old historic spectacle last week made its 2,239th performance. Oldsters were disappointed in Lyn Harding's performance in Chu-Chin-Chow, said it didn't stack up with that of beefy Oscar Asche...
Better than most things, the Chinese people love to pay homage-to ancestors, to warlords, to sacred mountains, even to traitors. From hundreds of miles around, pilgrims travel to the shores of Hang-chow's West Lake proudly to urinate upon the iron statue of a historic traitor named Chin Kuei. In honor of China's newest traitor, Wang Ching-wei, Chinese coolies call the fat-fried crullers they munch for breakfast yu cha-wei (i.e., "May Wei boil in oil in hell!"). Last week a new honor was bestowed on Traitor Wang. Chinese in Chungking started...