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...ranch near Fairfield, Calif., one Leung Ling or Loy Yeung, a Chinese cook, paid a visit. On his arrival, he took a rifle and a hatchet and killed one Wong Gee, Mrs. Wong Gee and three Wong Gee children. This done, he slaughtered Wong Hueng, whose brother owned the ranch, an old Chinaman named Low Chuck and three others. Then, in an automobile which had belonged to one of his enemies, Leung Ling set out for ways that were dark. California police, while they were perturbed, seemed less troubled than they were last spring when a U. S. youth hacked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Sep. 3, 1928 | 9/3/1928 | See Source »

...clay. Manager Walter Johnson, drawn and underweight from influenza, sat on a bench in plain clothes and a raincoat and watched the Giants in the year's first game beat the Newark Bears, 8 to 0. Bill Terry, infielder, knocked a home run the first time at bat. "Gee, I wish I could get out and throw a few" Johnson said, shifting on the bench...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: In Camp | 3/19/1928 | See Source »

...little roommate beamed. "Gee! Is she a real lady?" That went unanswered...

Author: By D. G. G., | Title: THE CRIME | 6/3/1927 | See Source »

...Story.? One foggy evening in 1900, a tough barge rat from Haverstraw, N. Y., marvels, as always, at the changing masses of Manhattan's skyline seen from the North River. "Gee," he says. "Gee!" He can neither read nor write. He is 16; name, John Breen; parents, a once-pretty Irish servant and someone other than the grimy bargee she calls their "old man." Entering the East River, in thickening fog and greasy tide-rips, the barge is rammed. Loaded with bricks ("the city's red corpuscles") it plunges under. John Breen struggles out of the greenish-black water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Pangs of Gianthood | 2/7/1927 | See Source »

...45th Pirates of Penzance and Iolanthe. For those who know Gilbert and Sullivan no more need be said. For those who don't George Gershwin should be quoted. When asked what he thought of the "Pirates", during the intermission on the opening night all he could say was, "Gee". Gilbert and Sullivan, like Yellow Taxi drivers, are "always reliable...

Author: By T. M., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 12/21/1926 | See Source »

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