Word: fah
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suite on the second floor of Washington's Mayflower Hotel constitutes the legation of the Kingdom of Albania. The drawing room is dominated by a talking-machine with a Gargantuan, oldfashioned, master's-voice horn. Presiding there since 1926 has been cultured, convivial Faik (pronounced "fah-eek") Konitza, a sixtyish bachelor who reads 13 languages, has an earned M. A. from Harvard University and numbers among his friends beauteous Ann Corio, famed Italianate strip-teaseuse...
...Chinese have blocked the river with timbers, sunken junks and hunks of concrete. Eleven other barriers straddle the river between Kinkiang and Hankow. This week, Japanese mine sweepers, gingerly nosing up to the boom, were driven off by Chinese big guns at the Matang fort, and Chinese General Chang Fah-kwei, entrusted last week by the Generalissimo to defend Hankow against a Yangtze assault, breathed easier as the rain-swollen river itself came to his aid, spilled over and drove several Japanese landing parties back to the boats...
...sensitive ear tired of being buttered with effete Oxfordese, Professor Lloyd James, linguistic adviser to British Broadcasting Corp., recommended that the BBC's radio talkers copy the diction of Franklin D. Roosevelt. "It is disturbing," snorted Professor James, "when a man stands with his back to the 'fah,' and announces that he got some 'tah' on the 'tahs...
...complete sets of dishes and utensils. Salting (melihah) of meat to remove all blood is a final koshering rite. The rabbis, however, allow for "neutral," or parve foods-vegetables, grain products, fish, eggs. Neutral dishes may be prepared as meaty or milky. An illegitimate mixture of foods is tre- fah or terephah. Terephah literally means "an animal torn by wild beasts." It applies especially to the slaughter of animals, or shechitah. Shechitah. The shochet is the one who does the slaughtering. One may not be a shochet if he is a deaf-mute, idiot, minor, one who is intoxicated...
...boys march north, join in a great battle. Nothing comes of it but corpses. Ko-sen begins to realize that human liberation is more complicated than revolutionary orators would have him think. And Fah-li has been wounded desperately. Ko-sen forsakes the army, goes to nurse his friend in the dreaded white men's hospital. But the white doctor's loving care of dying Fah-li opens Ko-sen's eyes, gives them a new slant on life. Home he goes, begging food & clothing by the way. When he arrives, he is clad in Revolutionary leggings, Christian coat, Temple...