Word: gongli
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...featured article in The American Magazine this month, Edmond J. Gong '52 3L, explains that his parents want him to marry a Chinese girl to be selected by his 80-year-old grandmother. Gong, who is visiting China for the first time, and has never seen his grandmother, wants to choose his won mate...
Born in Miami, Gong considers himself an American and disagrees with his parents in trying to arrange a match for him. He confides, "What I really hope is that I do not find a wife in China at all, so that I can come back to America and start the search over again...
...entirely serious in tone. Oh, we will play a little bridge and do a little dancing-and Spyros Skouras has sent us 20 new movies to show. But everybody will have to be in bed by 12 and up at 8. There'll be a gong to wake them. The main emphasis will be on learning about the places we visit." Elsa had only one indulgence to offer her serious-minded Achillonauts. "If you wear your hat with brim turned to the side, it will mean, 'Don't anybody speak to me. Just don't talk...
...faced, roundly smiling, improbable-looking man in a gaung baung (gauze turbanlike cap with side bow), ingyi (short-waisted, high-necked jacket) and longyi (skirt). Improbably, for a potentate from a faraway land, he came bearing thoughtful gifts: a pint of his blood for a U.S. hospital; a silver gong suspended between ivory elephant tusks for the President; a check for $5,000 for distressed families of G.I.'s killed or incapacitated in the liberation of his country, Burma, during World...
...gratification that he came over. The returning travelers and observers in that area have spoken of him in the most glowing terms as to ability and his leadership qualities." At midday in the White House, the President and his guest had lunch, and the President happily bonged his new gong...