Word: fu
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this point, Wu Pei-fu* would attack Feng from the rear in an attempt to regain the commanding position from which Feng (treacherously?) hurled him last year...
...shoots his enemy in a hot laundry or at best chops off his head with a meat cleaver in a hall bedroom. Such lack of consideration for reporters, such neglect of the movie career lying open to the artistic murderer brings one to the conclusion that the author of "Fu Manchu", anxious for his monopoly of mystery, has bribed the vengeful Chinese to be deliberately dull. If this guess be true, the tong member who so prostitutes his art, richly deserves the deportation awaiting...
Last autumn, after the defeat of President Tsao Kun and General Wu Pei-fu (TIME, Nov. 10), Chang, one of the victors, retired to Manchuria with words of peace, promising to keep his army out of politics...
...this Fane laughed unpleasantly. He made an offer: if she would bring him written assurance from Townsend that he would marry her, written assurance from Mrs. Townsend that she would divorce Charles, he would do as she asked. Otherwise he would require her to accompany him to Mei-tan-fu, a cholera-stricken town of which he was taking charge...
...loved her with all his soul; but, after all, there were other things to consider. ... A plague town, of course, was dangerous but not necessarily fatal if one took precautions; he advised no unboiled water, no lettuce. She returned to her husband, delighted to be going to Mei-tan-fu, where people were dying...