Word: fang
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...story really softens one's heart," wrote one susceptible newsman as Yen's colleagues began circulating a petition to Mme. Chiang. But it was all hopeless. The deadline remained unchanged. Said Fang Chih, Kuomintang leader: "I think no patriotic man or woman wants to embrace each other under soft lights. . . . Dancing girls could be trained to acquire useful talents in reconstructing the country and wiping out bandits...
Hsieh Chin, also a statesman, fell into imperial disfavor, was made drunk and entombed under a bank of snow. Tu Fu admired his own admirable verse so much that he recommended it for malarial fever. Fang Shu Shao, knowing his time had come, got into his coffin and wrote: "My pen and ink shall go with me inside my funeral hearse, so that if I've leisure 'over there' I may soothe myself with verse...
...corner of Paris' rue Chaptal, a cobblestone nook at the edge of Montmartre, is a quaint little Gothic chapel. Inside, carved cherubs and two seven-foot angels smile down from the black-raftered vault at a nightly round of vile murders, manglings, and assorted acts of torturing, fang-baring, acid-throwing...
...runner-up was the pre-primary favorite, earnest Dr. Homer Price Rainey, ousted president of the University of Texas.* After a discreet radio campaign that degenerated into fang and claw stumping, 50-year-old Baptist Dr. Rainey had clapped a Stetson on his bald head and begun calling names in the best southwestern tradition. He had done very well for a professor suspected by Texans of having read John Dos Passos' U.S.A. But, even with the silent support of the C.I.O.-P.A.C. and Texas' more than 50,000 voting Negroes, Homer Rainey would have...
...women M.P.s: former League Delegate Florence Horsbrugh ("I'm one of those people who think men and women must work together") and tiny Ellen Wilkinson, called the "shelter Queen" because of her labors in behalf of bombed-out Londoners. China also sent a woman: Dr. Wu Yi-fang, President of Ginling College...