Word: mandarin
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...South Africa's Chinese colony, 4,000 strong and as sober as Mandarin ducks, this was a matter of face. At the same time that he signed Swart's Chinese prohibition decree, Governor General Ernest George Jansen invited Shao Ting, 58, Nationalist China's Consul General in Johannesburg, to a United Nations ball. Under the decree, Shao or any other Chinese attending the event would not be able to get a drink. Shao refused to go. He wrote to the government protesting the "stigma of inferiority" implied in Swart's decree. After all, said Shao...
...Mandarin & Swahili. Beyond that tiny circle, no one paid much attention to his system. The academicians ignored him, and for a while so did his own school. It was not until the Blind and Deaf-Mute Congress of 1878 that Braille's dots won final international recognition. After that, the system began to spread-to the Mandarin of China, the Araucanian of Chile, the Swahili of East Africa, to 49 different languages...
Backstage, we saw many girls runing up and down the stairs from the stage to the dressing room. When we arrived, a blonde in a pair of Chinese mandarin pajamas was headed downstairs, and moments later, she came back, this time in a wispy cocktail frock. The fellow, next to me, muttered, "My God! She's forgotten her dress...
...Hull on a minute," the Mandarin Mystic retorted. "We took a Whelan last week, but we'll Cliggott today; and that's no Bool...
...freshmen are wiser now. They have learned that Lowndes is not Lowndes at all, but an enthusiastic, if misguided, graduate student; that Mandarin professors aren't always, and most important: the General Education office is at 20 Holyoke House...