Word: ho
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...TREASURE OF Ho-L. Adams Beck-Dodd, Mead ($2.00). Tucked in between covers of Chinese blue, with unruffled Chinese cranes strutting on them, is an absorbing tale of jade, dragons, chop suey, hidden shrines, legendary treasure, lotus flowers, all served up with an authentic Oriental flavor. It is the story of one John Mallerdean, in the Peking Customs Service, whose great-great uncle first got a foot in China's open door by curing the Emperor Chienlung of his gout and temper. A most provocative mixture of fact and fancy, some at least of Mallerdean's adventures...
...Aquitania (Cunard)?Sir Alfred Robbins, head of the Council of Freemasons in Great Britain; E. Francis Hyde, onetime Vice President of the Central Trust Co.; Bernard Gallant, proprietor of the Club Gallant, Manhattan restaurant recently padlocked by Prohibition enforcement officers; Ho Kom Tong, Chinese banker bound for London to be knighted by George, R. I.; Harry Pilcer, onetime dancing partner of Gaby Deslys; Miss M. Carey Thomas, President Emeritus of Bryn Mawr...
...there are many alternatives presented, as: "This is the story of the late holiday price-cutting war of the New England rum fleet" or: "Ho Nim and Fong Tang had just finished their supper in the tiny kitchen behind the laundry of Jim Fong, 2006 Chester Ave., Wednesday night...
While wondering what his next step should be, two startling offers were made. Lu Yung Siang, Tuchun (War Lord) of Chekiang and General Ho Fen Ling, Governor of Shanghai, both offered him planes to enable him to continue his flight...
...European travel and University study is to be opened for college the main foreign universities and educational centers. Students will travel from university to another, as did the medieval students, observing and studying in specially adopted courses being arranged for in English and continental universities by Dr. Frederic C. Ho we, formerly director of the people's Institute, who is now in Europe working on plans with university authorities...