Word: fo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...order of Generalissimo Chiang as a traitor, and that during the 15 months of the present war about 40 defeated Chinese commanders have been executed. In Canton, "The Birthplace of the Chinese Revolution," impassioned telegrams were received from Chungking in which Chinese President Dr. Lin Sen and Dr. Sun Fo, son of Dr. Sun Yatsen, "the Father of the Republic," exhorted the Cantonese to "defend your sacred soil...
...prestige of British seamanship. At 6:10 a. m. the 1,018-ft. ship lay in mid stream. Wind was down, tide was slack. Ten minutes later her 118-ft. beam was dead-centred in the 400-ft. slip between the Cunard and Italian Line piers. From the fo'c'sle head whistled two long, light heaving lines attached to ten-inch hawsers. Two men in a rowboat fished the light lines out, rowed them to the Cunard pier. Soon rhythmically functioning stevedore crews had the ship's main hawsers fast. Over board went more heaving lines...
...reason for the attack was soon deduced. Dr. Sun Fo, son of the late great Chinese Revolutionist Sun Yatsen, had recently visited Russia and toured European capitals seeking aid for the Chinese Government. Arriving in Hong Kong, he and his party booked passage with China National Aviation Corp. from Hong Kong to Chungking, China's temporary capital. Japanese spies evidently informed the Japanese Air Force that an easy job of assassination could be carried...
...paradox, however, that Duveneck's paintings seem more native to the "brown decades" in the U.S. than the paintings of some fo his stay-at-home contemporaries. he loved the brown pigment, bitumen, and it not only dulled his canvases but cracked extensively after a few years. His magnificently drawn and sometimes vivid portraits have the air of life in a darkened parlor, not the sunny tavern-and-haystack life which Duveneck and his pupils actually led. Artist Duveneck entered parlor society briefly in 1886 through his marriage to Elizabeth Boott, a refined Bostonian traveler straight out of Henry...
Saint Sun's son, Mr. Sun Fo, who recently went from Hankow to Hong Kong and from there to Europe (TIME, Jan. 3), was in Moscow last week and-contrary to the general impression that Mr. Sun has been successfully negotiating Soviet aid for China - Correspondent Walter Duranty cabled his opinion that J. Stalin & Co. were cold-shouldering China...