Word: jaded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tongking and Annam are ruled today as they were 400 years ago, by pale, effete coral-and-jade buttoned mandarins, kept in power by French rifles. After the War thousands of native Tongkingese troops went back to their country with new ideas of democracy. Republican and Communist ideas have seeped south from China proper. Rebellion began against the autocratic power of the mandarins some years ago, became a rebellion against France. First shots were fired more than two years ago when an Annamite garrison at Yen Bay on the China frontier mutinied and killed their French officers. Since then secret...
...exhibition of Japanese and Korean bronze, jade, pottery, sculpture, and Persian miniatures will be held in the Fogg Museum throughout November in memory of Harvey E. Wetzel. From today until Monday, November 23, there will be display of European silks and velvets, including tapestries from Italy, Spain and France that were made between the 15th and 18th centuries...
When President Chiang Kai-shek can snatch time to go home from China's everlasting wars, he goes to the world's daintiest First Lady, to girlish Mei-ling (née Soong*). who went to Wellesley, bangs her hair like a Victorian debutante, adores jade and jewels, is Methodistly devout. Last week First Lady Mei-ling again complied with a request she seldom refuses -the urgent request of a visiting Wellesley alumna for audience. Audience with China's First Lady is always at tea. Tea was served last week in the First Lady's small...
...jeopardy at the same time." Up to last week all Wellesley visitants continued to report that First Lady Mei-ling pours tea in a Chinese gown of finest silk, wears shoes of Wellesley (not Chinese) cut, speaks English with a Boston accent, affects plenteous diamond & platinum rings, priceless jade earrings. When an alumna exclaims, "What a beautiful old vase!" Mme Chiang is apt to reply gracefully, "Yes, quite old. But that white jade one there is older, 800 years...
...high, shining forehead, Bynner has been through the literary mill: as assistant editor of McClure's Magazine, advisory editor to publishers, instructor of English, lecturer on poetry. His two sidelines are poetry and American-Indian and Chinese art. With Kiang Kang-hu he translated a Chinese anthology, Jade Mountain. He lives in Santa Fe, N. Mex.. in the midst of Chinese jade, Mexican scrapes, Navajo rugs. He likes to play the piano, laugh and sing. Other books: Young Harvard, Grenstone Poems, The Beloved Stranger, A Canticle of Pan, Caravan...