Word: mandarinize
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...counts himself, All-American. Since April, as an Army private, he has been doing secret plainclothes work for the cloak-&-dagger Office of Strategic Services. On furloughs he returns to his apartment just off Nob Hill and his pretty Chinese-American wife. He sometimes wears a blue mandarin coat but also likes loud sports jackets...
...Bullock & Jones, Mme. T. V. Soong bought silk dressing gowns for T.V. and other men of the family. France's Admiral Georges Thierry d'Argenlieu* shopped in Gump's lush Mandarin Room. Mexico's Ezequiel Padilla went to the same famed Post Street store to get Mexican silver plates, gifts for the American delegation. Brazil's Carlos Martins pounced on cocktail sets and identification bracelets at jewelers like Shreve...
Martial Pressure. Ambassador Hurley donned a pince-nez to read an address in English. Third Secretary Fulton Freeman reread it in faultless Mandarin. The Generalissimo read a response in Chinese. An interpreter rendered it into faultless English. Then Pat Hurley presented his credentials. One formal hand shake was called for; the Ambassador added another for friendship's sake. As the Generalissimo lowered his hand, observers saw that Hurley's martial pressure had left it white and bloodless. But Chiang's face beamed...
...invasion called out Dr. Kung's shrewdest, toughest talents. The Jap blockade of the China coast ended the country's biggest source of revenue-customs receipts-and the Jap conquest of the northern salt mines cut off the second largest source, the salt tax. In his softest mandarin manner, Dr. Kung wheedled governments and bankers from the U.S. to Czechoslovakia for credit. He upped taxes as much as the sweating coolies could stand, winked at the grafters and then squeezed the squeezers. Gradually he was forced to open the floodgates of inflation wider & wider until it has many...
...behind the actors when he goes to the English theater ; his mother is Cantonese but he cannot speak Canton ese well enough to get along with Chinese waiters; and he dares not call on the Chi nese Ambassador in London because "He'd probably expect me to speak Mandarin . . . jeepers...