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...untranslatable title of All Men Are Brothers is Shui Hu Chuan-three words which mean "water," "margins," "novel." In the 13th Century, in the reign of Emperor Hung Chung, the Celestial Empire was disordered and seemed decayed. On a mountain set in a lake surrounded by marshes 108 men, fugitives from society, took refuge, set up a robbers' lair. Like Robin Hood's merry men they never ground down the faces of the poor but pillaged the rich and warred against unjust rulers. Readers will find this chronicle of their deeds and stratagems amazingly fresh, and once their...
...Elder by his wicked wife and the bawdy old woman; the Tattooed Priest, a kind of Friar Tuck of the outlaws; the robbers' rescue of the youth about to be executed. Though some of the incidents would never have passed Queen Victoria (in the 18th Century Shui Hu Chuan was banned in China as "licentious") they are narrated always with polite decency...
Harvard should have no trouble in setting down the visitors one, two, three. It is rumored that my esteemed friend the eminent doctor, Hu Flung Huey, has deigned to return once more from his forced seclusion in East Cambridge to give the readers of the CRIMSON the benefit of his astute wisdom by predicting the score. TIME OUT has warned him not to be as cautious and wary of the visitors' strength as he was last week. Harvard seems to be going places on the gridiron this fall...
...dozen Chinese, led by Philosopher Hu Shih...
...Hu, China, under the impression that it is Kansas City. ''You must be lost." says the hotel manager. ''I'm here." says Mr. Fields. "Kansas City is lost." At the Wu Hu International House a queer gathering has assembled to bid for the U. S. rights to a contraption called the radioscope, invented by a palsied Chinese. From time to time the inventor gives demonstrations of his machine: they show such radio folk as Rudy Vallée, Stoop-nagle & Budd, a wretched urchin called Baby Rose Marie performing their specialties. Miss Joyce...