Word: heathenism
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...jockey to score a "triple"-ride three winners in an afternoon-is not unusual. Nonetheless, even to jockeys as able as young Hank Mills, it is gratifying. Hank Mills had particularly good reason to feel pleased about his triple with The Heathen, Euclid and Bodkin in the closing week of the Jamaica. L. I. race meeting last week. It was his second triple of the meeting; it put him back in the running for riding honors at the course; and it substantiated his claim to being, at 17, the leading U. S. jockey of the year...
...China and to Marshal Wu was addressed last week a most amazing telegram received at Shanghai from Manchuria's famed General Ma (TIME, Nov. 23). For more than 40 days, according to his telegram, General Ma has been double-crossing everyone with a skill and success unrivaled even among heathen Chinese...
...poker game in a Florida casino. Actually, however, the countenance of Edward G. Robinson is less wicked than Mongolian. Shrewdly cast in this old (David Belasco-Achmed Abdullah) melodrama of San Francisco's Chinatown, he needs no make-up to assure you that he is the heathen executioner of the Lem Sing Tong...
...year 1931 pitched even Colonel Lindbergh into heathen waters; sent Mahatma Gandhi disgruntled back to India; faced Josef Stalin with ragged gaps in the Five-Year Plan (see p. 16); failed to produce a Fascist government under Adolf Hitler (potential Man of 1932). But who rose from obscurity to world prominence, steered a Great Power safely through 1931, closed the year on a peak of popularity among his countrymen...
...heathen Chinee is peculiar...