Word: hong
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...good part of the time his mind must be as teeming as the last week of a rehearsal. So well had he mentally planned Hay Fever that he wrote it during a house-party weekend. Private Lives was the product of a week's flu-confinement in a Hong Kong hotel. The record is sagging. It took months of voyaging in South American waters for him to jot down Design For Living...
Leading Japanese newspapers featured brazenly last week a story that Great Britain's helpful attitude toward Japan has been due to "fear that the Japanese Navy might seize both Hong Kong and Singapore which Great Britain could not defend at present." (The famed British naval base at Singapore is incomplete. James Ramsay MacDonald is a Pacifist. Overtaxed Britons are in no mood to pay the cost of fighting Japan...
...relations between the different religions principally in India and China. The committee with which he is connected is composed of Rufus Jones of Haverford, and former President Faunce of Brown. During the winter, sects in India have been studied, and at the present time the commission is at Hong-Kong, awaiting military developments before proceeding north to Peking. On the material gathered by this survey, Professor Hocking will base a course in Oriental Religion. He will also give a course in Metaphysics, Philosophy...
...incredibly clever continuity to make a smoothly-flowing film out of disconnected scenes. Mr. Fairbanks is never at a loss to provide transitions: one moment he commands a gigantic map to appear on the floor, so that he can stride about, with one foot in Tibet and another in Hong Kong, pointing out the route. Again, when time presses, he produces a most convincing magic carpet to whisk his party home to Hollywood on the tick of the eightieth minute. Yet these tricks of photography and sound-recording seem not at all out of place with such a spellbinder...
...Japanese boycott called off. The city was on edge. Somebody planted a bomb in the Nanking Theatre, largest cinema in Shanghai. It fizzled. A nervous Chinese sentry shot and killed Dr. Alexander Proges, Austrian manager of American Express Co. (known to Chinese taxi drivers as Mei-gwok wantung ngan-hong). A Chinese munitions launch blew up in the middle of the river, killed 35 coolies, just as a passenger airplane was passing overhead. Thousands of citizens thought the Japanese invasion had begun. There are no cellars to hide in in Shanghai (any hole three feet deep strikes water), so they...