Word: lai
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sunderland adds an appendix chapter roundly flaying, firmly negating Katherine Mayo's popular U. S. handbook of Indian dirtinesses and sexual shortcomings, Mother India.* But a Unitarian clergyman cannot meet Miss Mayo on her chosen ground. That has just been done by a scathing Lahore publicist, Kanhaya Lai Gauba. His book is Uncle Sham.† Without pausing to tilt over India with Miss Mayo he plunges straight into an exposé of U. S. dirtiness and shortcomings. Quoting chapter and verse from Herbert Hoover, Ben B. Lindsey, Bernarr Macfadden and many another, avenging Kanhaya Lai Gauba "proves" (by half...
...Fang Lai, Chinese research fellow at the University of Pittsburgh, last week reported that he had found a good use for beryllium, one of the rare earth metals. By substituting beryllium oxide for soda lime silicate he has produced a harder, more refractory, more transparent glass than the usual kind. It lets the sun's ultraviolet light pass through...
Died. Gaetano Cardinal di Lai, 75, after a year and half of illness initiated by pneumonia. He was long a part of the very core of Roman Catholic Church administration and jurisdiction-as secretary of the Consistorial Congregation, as one of the 12 members of the Rota (Church supreme court), as one of the six Cardinal Bishops of the Hierarchy...
Famed as laundrymen, restaurateurs, Chinamen have not yet made their mark in aviation. But next month, Dr. Tien Lai Huang, "Chinese Lindbergh," hopes to take off for Hong Kong with a passenger, Anna May Wong, cinema star and daughter of a Los Angeles laundryman. And next month, Harry Rally King, Boston restaurateur, will tour the U. S. in a Pitcairn Mailwing to urge the cause of the Nationalists...
Rome despatches, carefully censored, told no names. But in the shrewd reply, a smack of the old wit of white-haired Cardinal-Bishop Vincenzo Vannutelli, 91-year old Dean of the Sacred College, might be seen. Or, others guessed, of Cardinal-Bishop Gaetano de Lai, as famed for apt reply as sharp-tongued Irish divine. Dean Swift...