Word: mandarinism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Among the biggest deals was that of Leroy Healey, of Seattle's Barclay Co., Inc. Awkwardly he signed an order for $100,000 worth of mandarin oranges. The awkwardness was due to his lame right arm, which was torn from its socket by Japanese police in a wartime prison camp in Shanghai...
...existed in China for 2,000 years, and will exist for many more. If Americans are going to know China, they will have to know the grave, grey man, with the face of an aristocratic saint, who sometimes wears a rumpled Western business suit and sometimes a blue mandarin gown, who sometimes plots little intrigues and sometimes dreams great dreams...
...Madame Chiang, does the Generalissimo spend more of his waking hours. In Chungking days, the two would cross the Yangtze together to the presidential home high above the south bank. Watchers would see two silent figures in the Gimo's power launch -Chiang in unadorned uniform, Chen in mandarin gown, reading each other's thoughts, rarely uttering a word...
Perhaps the blackest mark on Chen's blue mandarin gown is that his anti-Communist obsession has, in fact, made Communists. So heavy is Chen's hand on all unorthodoxy that many youths who might have taken a middle course choose Communism's extreme instead of Chen...
...Symphony (Sun. 5 p.m., NBC). Mozart's Jupiter Symphony, Béla Bartók's The Miraculous Mandarin, Richard Strauss's Till Eulenspiegel. Conductor: Fritz Reiner...