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...Opium War in 1841. Hong Kong. The plague. War junks. Tongs. China clippers sailing on the tide (and on nearly every page). May-may, a Chinese concubine who gargles baby urine. Gorth Brock, a bastardo degenerado. Wolfgang Mauss. Shevaun. The priapic painter Aristotle Quance. Redhaired, green-eyed, sharkproof Dirk Struan, Tai-Pan (Supreme Leader) of The Noble House, trader in poppies, mayhem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bigger Than Life | 6/17/1966 | See Source »

...that made police reserves from Trenton seem necessary to the peace of Princeton. False fire alarms were sent in. A student mob of riotous proportions assembled. Party banners were torn down and up. A passing motor bus and all its passengers received a thoroughgoing shake on Nassau street. Dean Mauss strode out to quiet his charges. They ignored him and roistered long and late...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: At Princeton | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

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