Word: fu
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...music was the hit of the show. It was made on a collection of infernal-looking machines that appeared, to Western eyes, to be straight out of Dr. Fu Manchu...
...beat his way up to Nanking from Shanghai in a howling gale of antipathy and criticism. Huffiest & puffiest was still the wind of Fu Szu-nien. Chubby, nearsighted, greying Fu, respected scholar and independent liberal, had expanded his polemics against T.V. into three newspaper articles...
Instead of Tea. Thursday afternoon, in this atmosphere, T.V. invited all 30 members of the standing committee of the People's Political Council to the Executive Yuan for tea. But the implacable Fu led 17 fellow committeemen in a boycott of the Premier's party. Word went round that T.V. would have a rough time at the upcoming Legislative Yuan...
...rain of friendly bread. The Japanese, who had occupied the city, abandoned its 35,000 citizens in August 1945 to a ragtag puppet garrison, which was quickly adopted-but not reinforced -by the Nationalist Government. When Chinese Communist forces neared, the garrison breached the banks of the nearby Fu Yang River and turned Yungnien into a Nationalist fortress in a vast, Red-bordered lake...
...Manhattan, lean, bemonocled Visitor Sax Rohmer, who had been chiefly concerned with Fu Manchu for the past 30 years, listened with professional interest to Soprano Mimi Benzell. She would sing in a new operetta, Chinese Nightingale-new book & lyrics by Sax Rohmer. The show would open in London, but Briton