Word: hongkongers
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...Hongkong (declining a Rotary luncheon invitation): "Rotary is a gang organized by ignorant and unscrupulous merchants who use the club as a means to promote their positions." (Retorted the U. S. president of Shanghai Rotary, which withdrew its invitation: "Shaw says Rotarians are over-stuffed monkeys gathered around luncheon tables. I can only say there is always room for one more, and that is why he was invited...
...father, Warren Delano II, was a wealthy China tea merchant. Her great-great-great-great-grandfather, Philip de Lannoy, landed at Plymouth, Mass., in 1621 aboard the Fortune. When Sara was eight, her mother took her and six brothers and sisters around the Horn on the clipper Surprise to Hongkong. The voyage lasted 110 days. Later there were trips to Paris, breathtaking glimpses of the Empress...
...fight Japan. Most such proclamations were of course mere bluff, but the world listened to Poet-General Tsai Ting-kai, famed for the glorious resistance of his 19th Route Army to Japan's attack on Shanghai (TIME, Feb.1). Telegraphed General Tsai, who happened to be in British Hongkong 1,600 mi. from Shanhaikwan last week: "If Chang Hsueh-liang has no intention of resisting I will take the19th Route Army to North China...
...Brothers starts the cycles that other Hollywood companies finish, it is generally conceded that Warner's strong point lies in selecting stories. One Way Passage, by Robert Lord, is several notches above the Warner average. An escaped murderer (William Powell) meets a charming lady (Kay Francis) in a Hongkong bar. They fall in love. The next time they meet, on shipboard, the murderer is on his way to be hanged. His inamorata expects to die very shortly of a weak heart. Each learns of the other's predicament. They do not reveal their knowledge to each other. Before...
...told Miss Marlowe, "after you tell me your name and nationality." These facts he entered in a notebook. Miss Marlowe went?from Shanghai to Hongkong (British). Naturally all the Consuls General at Shanghai protested to the Japanese Consul General but in the capitals of the Great Power, there was exhibited none of that spirit which the late Theodore Roosevelt, the late Georges Clemenceau or Queen Victoria used to exhibit when one of their nationals was set upon abroad...