Word: hued
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Love came over the rice fields of Annam up the River of Perfumes, to the forbidden city of Hué, over the walls of the Red City and into the white dragon-eaved Palace. There, last week, among his jazz records, his ping-pong tables, his radio and his detective stories, it found and smote that gloomy youth, Bao Dai, hereditary Emperor of Annam, Son of Heaven, Absolute Master and Father and Mother of his People-and French puppet. Too bored to look sullen. Bao Dai spent his life from 9 to 19 in Europe, where he had let himself...
...palace has other rooms for the parties Bao Dai dearly loves. To one such party lately went a pretty 18-year-old girl from French Cochin-China to the south. She was a commoner, daughter of a well-born Chinese ex-Governor and her name was Marie Nguyen Hu Hao. She, too, had been edu-cated in Europe, in a convent near Paris. She liked detective stories and jazz and was ready to try her hand at ping-pong...
Reverend father, Dr. Hu Flung Huey, ocC. disappeared last night while in process of prognosticating stop believe him kidnapped in connection with Lampoon-H.A.A. feud stop all predictions but Harvard-Army encounter found on desk of Reverend Sire stop In Casey returns shall wire you stop all I can say now is that Army will gird on its sword and Buckler stop it should be a Burlingame stop following are scores left by honored father: Brown 13 Syracuse 0 Princeton 13 Dartmouth 6 Yale 7 Georgia 6 Columbia 13 Navy 7 Fordham 7 N.Y.U. 7 Michigan State 23 Carnegie...
...Harvard football team is to be the victim. That is, the Crimson is the object of the scalping party. Whether the Cowboys, represented by the home team, or the Indians from Hanover will be victorious is a question still obscure except to the miraculous insight of our colleague, Dr. Hu Flung Huey. TIME OUT ventures into this diatribe with little confidence in his power and many trepidations. For the Harvard team is not faithful. It is a fickle outfit this season, changing from good to bad and from bad to worse with the falseness of a temperamental operatic star...
...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...