Word: mandarins
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...Wong, a mandarin of much potency and some parts, was considerably dismayed when he awoke one morning to find his pigtail gone. A hastily-convened assembly of wise men was not much help, passed the buck to a soothsayer. This worthy declared that within three days a mendicant would appear at the city gates who would make all clear. In due time the mendicant appeared, turned out to be a professional expresser of public apologies and an old drunk into the bargain. Luckily for himself he had with him his granddaughter, Hwa-che, who knew all about solving crimes from...
Shanghai. At the mouth of the Yangtze is commercially and financially the New York City of China. North of Shanghai coolies eat wheat and speak an approximation of Mandarin. South of Shanghai coolies eat rice and speak Cantonese. Until 1842 the Manchu emperors refused foreigners the right to trade at Shanghai, but in that year a British fleet sailed menacingly up the Yangtze and by a treaty signed at Nanking five Chinese cities were opened for trade and settlement. Subsequently most important of them was Shanghai...
...reputation of worrying less than any strong man previously at the controls of his sprawling, somnolent Republic, showed no signs of worry last week. It was the moment for him to deliver his annual message to Congress and he did so with the blandness of a mandarin: "With the hotbeds of the 1935 rebellion extinct . . . the situation appears peaceful and prosperous. However . . . the necessity of continued vigilance persists...
Little Mariette Nguyen Huu Hao was beautifully married. It took four days. On her way up Annam's great mandarin road along the coast she stopped off to climb a mountain and drink of the "frozen spring." Outside Huê, a cavalcade of palace mandarins on short native Phu-Yen horses met her in the Valley of Clouds and escorted her through the three walls of the Red City into the Palace of Passengers. Next day, dressed in a great brocaded Annamite gown, she stepped into an automobile and was driven to the Emperor's Palace, followed...
...each ($550 Roosevelt) to the 18 employes on his farm. Each employe was also given a costume from the Barlow collection. An ironclad clause in the will provided that none of the legacies should be paid unless the 18 legatees wore their fancy costumes continuously for one year. Chinese mandarin, cossack, matador, Indian rajah and Hawaiian went stolidly about their work last week, counting the days...