Word: hu
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When a storm swamped a rowboat on Cayuga Lake in 1916, a young Cornell man named Hu Shih got a ducking. To memorialize the immersion, a soaking compatriot composed a poem in literary Chinese. Its mannered, delicate style seemed so ill-suited to the topic that young Hu dashed off some lustier lines of his own. They were written in Pai Hua (the living speech) instead of Wen Li (the literary language), and they were good. Until Hu did it, no one believed that serious literature could be made from, Pai Hua, as Dante had from Italian...
Returning to China, a Peking University professor at 26, Hu started a literary reform that crackled through China like fire through a paper house. Today Pai Hua is used in China's schools, books and some newspapers (though not government documents). All China reveres Hu Shih as the "Young Sage" (the old one: Confucius...
Washington would attach. Liberal, scholarly Hu Shih took a parable from Mencius : "Here are a small basket of rice and a bowl of soup, and the case is one in which the getting of them will preserve life and the want of them will be death. [Yet] if they are offered with insulting voice, even a tramp will not receive them . . . even a beggar will not stoop to take them." Still other Chinese, not quite sure what the U.S. might eventually ladle out, hoped for more than drops. Editorialized Shanghai's China Press last week: "China's needs...
WORCESTER. Oct. 17--Hu Flung sang "Da last Grosa summer" as he Deffley reached for his Kissel Ball. "We got Moran we Barton for last week, but we will Troy to win this one in Stetter losing it. You know this Holy Cross Haas no Fontana youth...
...Hu Flung Huey ran after the Babb and finally Cotter. He tried to Werner, "Jakunski in the winter but now is the time to Suwall-o a Knepp of alcohol from a Silbur flask and Foster the football spirit...