Word: hoa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From the very day that the Marines piled out of their transports into Tsingtao and heard their first "Ding hoa!" from the same irrepressible urchins that dogged GI footsteps all over Cathay, the reactionaries and a good proportion of the men themselves thought that they would never leave until the Communists were put down. The general opinion was that they were there to help the Kuomintang, not to "repatriate prisoners" as headquarters was claiming. With the comfortable feeling that whatever happened, good old Uncle Sam would never let them down, the reactionaries could be just as tough in dealing with...
...danced in Moscow in the '20s, The Poppy was about a little cabaret dancer named Tai Hoa (symbolizing China) whose love for a Russian sea captain was frustrated by the machinations of an imperialistic British treaty-port commander named Sir Hips. The ballet ended with the murder of Tai Hoa by a jealous Chinese who is a tool of Sir Hips, and the rise of the Chinese proletariat to the strains of the Internationale...
Recently the Russian choreographer Igor Schwezoff brought The Poppy up to date. With a deft tour-en-l'air of the choreographic party line, Schwezoff abolished the evil British commander, converted Tai Hoa's murderer into a Japanese, added a British and a U.S. sailor (both very agreeable fellows), ended with the murder, not of Tai Hoa, but of the Japanese. The Manhattan audience did not seem to mind these alterations. As the Internationale burst from the City Center's orchestra, the crowd broke into cheers...