Word: nora
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...HOUSE OF EXILE-Nora Waln- Little, Brown...
...Nora Waln's ancestors, Quaker merchants of Philadelphia, had long traded amicably with the Lin family of Hopei and Canton, but no Lin had actually met a Waln till a Lin husband and wife, touring the Western World, called on Nora Waln when she was a student at Swarthmore. They invited her to visit them in China; in 1920 she did, and liked it so well she is still a Chinese resident. Main house of the Lins is in Canton, but her friends were members of the Hopei branch. Their "House of Exile" has been occupied by the family...
...Nora Waln was the first foreigner ever to be admitted to the house; they welcomed her, treated her like one of themselves-all except one woman who had seen her mother raped by foreign soldiers. The Lins begged their visitor to excuse this relative's prejudice. Admitted to their hospitality, Nora Waln also had to obey their rules. After being presented to Kuei-tzu (Lady of First Authority in the House of Exile) she was forbidden to appear again until "sufficiently civilized" to hear and speak for herself; all members of the family were forbidden to speak...
...short visit, she met an Englishman in the Chinese Government Service, had a premonition that he would marry her. He did, and the rest of her book describes chiefly her life in the foreign settlements of Nanking, Canton, Tientsin. All through China's recent troubled years Nora Waln has kept green her friendship with the Lin family. When she wrote her book about them she got bilingual Yeng-peng to read it to the assembled family, asked their permission to publish it. The 18-day reading completed, permission was granted. Said Uncle Keng-lin: "It is an achievement...
...years ago Serge Voronoff, gland transplanter, tried to get a child from Nora, a chimpanzee into whom he had sewn human ovaries. For a time Nora seemed gravid. But nothing came of the experiment (TIME, Feb. 14, 1927). The present Russian effort is to produce creatures who, like mules and catalos (cattle-buffalo), are more primitive than their primevally related parents. If by improbable chance any of the Ivanoff children are fertile, they may yield generations to visibly bridge the gap between...