Word: mah
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...United States Government will not recognize Mah Jongg as dominoes-even for customs duty...
...China the ancient and honorable game of Mah Jongg is used to settle many disputes and problems. More than one man has, by being careless with an East Wind, found himself sitting in solemn silence in the dull, dark dock of a pestilential prison with a lifelong lock awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock of a cheap and chippy chopper on a big, black block...
Andrew Kan, Chinese merchant of Seattle, recently returned from the great oriental Republic, says the world has gone " Mah Jongg mad." Mr. Kan should know. He went to China to place orders for a half a million sets, but was only able to obtain a fraction of that number, owing to the enormous demand. The price of the game has been increased 100% during the past few months, and Mr. Kan thinks that the price will continue on its upward flight until the American public stops buying, " then the supply will equalize the demand...
...points out that " China is often called a nation of sleepy people, or one that has been asleep for hundreds of years, but here is one case in which they are not asleep. Instead, they are awake to the profits that may be made from Mah Jongg, and for the time being they are reaping a good harvest...
...story is in circulation in Peking that the position was offered to General Hwang Fu, Doctors Koo, Chen Ting-Wang and Yen, who decided to settle their fate by a game of Mah Jongg. It was arranged that the lowest score should accept the vacant position. They " played all night " and Dr. Koo lost " by one bamboo...