Word: mooned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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India last week heard for the first time the full story of Constable Karam Singh. A stocky, moon-faced Sikh with a curly black mustache, Karam Singh. 49, was the commander of the Indian police patrol in Ladakh that was ambushed and cut to pieces by the Chinese last October (TIME, Nov. 2). Captured, Singh was treated with a mixture of brutality, buffoonery, cynicism and dishonesty, which indicates that Chinese methods with their prisoners have varied little since the Korean...
...prestige-drenched Empire Room of Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, organ-toned Songstress Sarah Vaughan rushed out and bought a $60,000 house in suburban New Jersey. One feature: a set of entrance chimes (cost: $450) that plays one of Sarah's biggest hits, How High the Moon. Exulted she: "I used to eat for a year on the price of what it now costs to ring my silly old doorbell...
Chin P'ing Mei ends Hsi Men's story here. But a sequel, possibly by the same author (who may be the famed 16th century scholar and statesman Wang Shih Cheng), describes how the scoundrel's virtuous widow, Moon Lady, and her infant son suffer for Hsi Men's egregious gong-kicking. The work is Ko Lien Hua Ying, or Flower Shadows Behind the Curtain, translated into German by Sinologist Franz Kuhn and now passed on to English readers, fire-bucket fashion, by Translator Vladimir Kean. The result, somewhat surprisingly, is wry and readable...
...saintly Moon Lady, separated from her pious young son by invading Tartars, is hustled offstage before she can become tiresome. Her place is taken by a crew of thieves, usurers, pimps and powder faces (prostitutes) who add up to a kind of road-company Decameron. The fat lecher Pi, for instance, lusts after the beautiful Silver Vase, a pubescent virgin being carefully tended by Lady Li, a flower-garden proprietor (brothelkeeper). Cash-and-Carry, a young wastrel, volunteers to act as go-between, but what he goes between are Silver Vase's sheets. Lady Li, who has been giving...
...course, virtuous Moon Lady is restored to her riches and reunited with her son. But as the author probably intended, what the reader remembers is more likely to be the song of the low-living and unrepentant beggar Ying...