Word: ko
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Toad Juice. In Eli Lilly's Indianapolis drug laboratories where he directs pharmacological research. Dr. Ko Kuei Chen, Johns Hopkins graduate, applied himself to finding out what there is in folk medicine which helps Chinese cure toothache, sinusitis and mouth sores with applications of dried toad venom and which made Shakespeare note: "Sweet are the uses of adversity, which like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head (As You Like It). From glands located behind the eyes of 7,500 U. S., German, Jamaican, Uruguayan, South African, Chinese and Japanese toads. Dr. Chen...
...cast which Producer Milton Aborn presents is about the same that appeared in his revivals two years ago. Frank Moulan, a little monkey of a man who delighted St. Louis Municipal Operagoers many a summer season in the past, takes the part of Ko-Ko, the Lord High Executioner who finds himself in danger of having to execute himself. Yum-Yum, one of his wards, is Hizi Koyke. Her suitor, the Mikado's wandering minstrel son, is played by Roy Cropper, a young man with a pleasingly liquid tenor...
...there are three most excellent characterizations: the Lord High Executioner, the Lord High Everything Else, and the Mikado. Mr. William Danforth, as the Mikado, is a player most perfectly in the Gilbertian tradition. His devastating Oriental grin stretches permanently from ear to ear; he rocks with noiseless merriment as Ko-Ko tells of the deadly snickersnee; he recites the list of hand-tailored punishments aimiably through his teeth, till suddenly his blood-curdling laugh, like Mephistopheles, rips up and down the baritone scale. He is so like a scoundrel, and so like a benevolent bishop at a christening, that Gilbert...
When little Ko-sen falls so sick that no pellets from his family's traditional medicine-chest seem to help, his family sends him to the temple, the traditional cure-all for human ills. Recovered, Ko-sen is now a temple-boy, belonging to the pot-bellied gilt gods. Though given to the gods, he feels no dedication in himself, contrives after a time to run away with Fah-li, another temple boy. In the first town they come to they hear a revolutionary orator recruiting volunteers. Ko-sen is much impressed by the new ideas of liberation from traditional...
...boys march north, join in a great battle. Nothing comes of it but corpses. Ko-sen begins to realize that human liberation is more complicated than revolutionary orators would have him think. And Fah-li has been wounded desperately. Ko-sen forsakes the army, goes to nurse his friend in the dreaded white men's hospital. But the white doctor's loving care of dying Fah-li opens Ko-sen's eyes, gives them a new slant on life. Home he goes, begging food & clothing by the way. When he arrives, he is clad in Revolutionary leggings, Christian coat, Temple...