Word: honge
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Specifically, then, under Cinema, p. 45, The Painted Veil, your premises are that 1) Mrs. Fane's marriage was loveless and ignoble at the time of her arrival in Hong Kong; 2) She committed adultery; and 3) Her marriage was neither loveless nor ignoble at the conclusion of the picture. From these premises you conclude that "the picture . . . can be considered an advertisement for adultery as a matrimonial cure-all." In other words, since the marriage was happier after the adultery, it was happier because of the adultery...
...Author. Second of five children with a mixed heritage of diplomacy and Presbyterianism, Thornton Niven Wilder was born in Madison, Wis. (1897), went to China at nine when his father was appointed U. S. Consul-General at Hong Kong, attended school there eight years. Back in the U. S. he finished his formal education at Thacher School, Oberlin College, the Coast Artillery Corps, Yale, where he got his A. B. in 1920. Even as a Yale undergraduate he gave promise of being one of the prize blossoms of the current "literary renaissance," attracted the favorable attention of William Lyon Phelps...
Like jackals, Canton troops raced north to snap up abandoned towns before Nanking did. A batch of rebel politicians led by Eugene Chen moped off on a Hong-kong-bound steamer...
...Walla Walla, Australia was searched. Australian detectives all summer long swarmed over foreign vessels, pried into every shipment leaving the country. Foreign police departments were asked to help. One by one reports came in. The bell was not in Tokyo, not in Canton, not in Shanghai, not in Hong Kong. Durban and Cape Town could not find it, nor could New Caledonia, Suva, Papeete, Singapore, Hawaii. Vancouver, Amsterdam and Liverpool were a blank and Manhattan Police Commissioner Bolan had no tidings...
University of Southern California Publisher Harry Chandler of the Los Angeles Times .... Litt.D. Admiral Richard Henry Leigh, Commander-in-Chief of U.S. Fleet ... Sc.D. President Foonyer Catherine Woo of St. Paul's College, Hong Kong ... Pd.D...