Word: mandarinize
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...Streets of Shanghai. Not in years has a truckload of U. S. Marines dashed so madly over rough Chinese roads to save the honor of a pretty American missionary, lured to a mandarin's den. Heavy with leers, threats, murders and stabbings, the dolorous drama follows Pauline Starke as the girl who loves Marine Kenneth Harlan, who is in turn loved by wicked Margaret Livingston. Evil sticks up like potatoes in Irish stew. It is all excessively Chinese, silly...
...Their term is Tsoong Kok Nyung, which is, literally, Chinaman. And while in English they do not call us America-men, their term is Mei Kok Nyung which, again translated literally, is no more nor less than that. The pronunciation given is, of course, in Shanghai dialect, but the Mandarin pronunciation is not very different, and the meaning is exactly the same...
Included in the program is a Chinese fairy tale in which a willow tree goes out of its way to help a princess in distress. The tree bears one banana to appease the wrath of an angry mandarin, and die immediately after accomplishing its errand of mercy...
...Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan-Turandot, posthumous opera of Giacomo Puccini, composer of Madame Butterfly, La Boheme, Tosca. The Metropolitan spared no expense and achieved a gorgeous spectacle-first the rambling walls of the Imperial Palace against a sandy Peking sky and a mumbling Chinese crowd gathered to hear a mandarin read the death decree of the youthful Prince of Persia who has failed to solve the three enigmas of the cruel Princess Turandot; dusk, and the great sword sharpened for the Prince's neck and the mob crying for compassion. Princess Turandot, icy white, on a Palace balcony, signals...
...beard is to the face what the East is to Western civilization many scholars have thought that Peter was quite right to shave. He did not want to wear his subconscious on his chin. But the Shah of Persia, who affected still the long spiky bristle of the mandarin, was worried. When he heard how the naked chin of Peter gleamed blue and shameless in his new palace, Petersburg, upon the Neva, he sent him a fine rug as one who would say: In mystery the twig is bent, and a patch of hair divides one nation from another...