Word: ko
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tiehling to Hsinmin it is two days, via Mukden, where, as refugees note, "faces are bitter and prices even higher than in Changchun." At Hsinmin the Nationalist lines end again. South of that rail city lies the most terrible san-pu-kuan stretch of all, the notorious Liu Ho Ko, or Willow River Ditch. This no man's land belongs to bandits who dress in yellow jackets and black pants, carry white knapsacks and oiled-paper umbrellas. They lie in wait along a willow-lined ditch, jump up with drawn revolvers, shout, "Don't make trouble! Hand over...
...Oyly Carte cast is masterful in "Iolanthe." The most important factor in the evening's work remains Martyn Green, who is offered by the opera precisely the proper balance of singing and "business." Instead of the constant mugging of Ko-Ko or the small opportunities of the part of Major General Stanley, Green as the Lord Chancellor in "Iolanthe" has "When you're Lying Awake," "Faint Heart Never Won," and "I said to Myself, Said I" to sing as well as some of his most entertaining business...
Back in China, people were not so easily deceived. They did not refer to Feng as the "Christian General." They had always called him tao-ko chiang-chun, or Turn-Spear General. But then, most American liberals don't speak Chinese...
...Democrat. Fighting the Japanese, he suffered several crushing defeats; to save his face, Chiang gave him ringing government titles. In 1946 Feng told the Generalissimo that he wanted to go to the U.S. to study water conservation and act as good-will ambassador for Chiang. "Whatever you wish, Ta Ko [Big Brother]," said Chiang. Ever since then, Feng has been in the U.S., making violent proCommunist, anti-Chiang propaganda. Cried he of Chiang: "Reactionary . . . dictator . . . traitor ... his rule must be overthrown...
Only conceivable democrat among them was the Ko-Ko, Martyn Green. Green's plebeian shenanigans evoked, as of yore, the loudest applause, the greatest lifting of eyebrows. His adroitness, especially his scissors-like legwork, was beyond dispute. But whether all his mugging, prancing and capering was entirely seemly-or entirely successful-continued to be disputed...