Word: mandarin
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...peasant in a Hawaiian grass skirt was driving a span of oxen at Brissac near Tours last week. In the same held another team pulled a heavy plow under the vicious prodding of a gold-laced Spanish matador. Out in the same farm's kitchen garden a Chinese mandarin was watering the kohlrabi. In the stable reporters found a sullen Frenchman in the bonnet and kilts of a Gordon Highlander forking manure...
...women, continues her narrow pencil-line dresses for daytime, rives a mandarin shape to her knee-length, tailored wool coats. Fur from head to heel is used by all couturiers but Helm swirls it most lavishly around throats, shoulders, hems, hats and capes. Jean Paton turns his peplums upside down to look like stiff upstanding coat tails and features long sleeves, no backs, huge under-chin bows for evening...
...third generation of missionaries. Presbyterian Calvin Wilson Mateer (1836-1908) dabbled as a child in machinery and electricity, liked to make things "go and then go faster." He went to China, a six-month journey, spent 45 years there with only three vacations. Missionary Mateer studied Chinese, wrote "Mandarin Lessons" which simplified learning the language, built a foreign scientific museum, and with six students founded Shantung College, today the Arts College of Shantung Christian University...
...Empress Dowager Tzu-hsi. Chang Tso-lin was a bandit who made himself master of Manchuria before the breakup of the Empire in 1911, and then developed streaks of patriotism. He was extremely proud of his nickname, "The Old Tiger," which originated in his drooping mustaches and his striped mandarin robes.* In the Tiger Room of his Mukden palace he kept enormous stuffed Manchurian tigers, served cups of what was supposed to be hot tigers' blood to his guests. More important, he was one of the shrewdest, wiliest politicians in the East. Secretly opposed to Japan, he hypnotized Japanese...
...agent of the London engineering firm of Bewick, Moreing & Cox of which he later became a partner. In detail his "taking" of the Kaiping coal mines in China is described, together with the London law suit in which an equity court found against his firm and in favor of Mandarin Chang. Tin enterprises in Nigeria, oil ventures in Siberia and Peru, gold digging in the Klondike, lead and silver mining in Burma-all are set forth as "stock deals" in which Mr. Hoover profited while outside shareholders were losing their shirts. The whole book is written in a vicious insinuating...