Word: papered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their stores, shopkeepers lit candles on their red altars for ceremonial offerings to the gods. Barbershops were doing a rush business, and fortune tellers were so sought after that they made appointments days in advance. Nanking's miserable colony of refugees from Communist areas was sprinkled with red paper signs asking health & wealth from the gods. An old man who had fled Suchow three months ago tapped tobacco from some cigarette butts into his pipe and said: "At home in Suchow I would be burning incense to the gods. Now look...
Until the Communists came, Peiping tried to make the best of the New Year. Shops on Lantern Street were crammed with New Year's lanterns-paper lions, brilliant green rabbits, yellow tigers. For the children, there were toy swords and whistling yo-yos. "I don't know if people will have money to buy them all," said one shopkeeper, "but we felt like making them anyway. We have peace...
...have something," he said, "that I regret very much having to say . . . Tonight's issue will be our last one. We have made every effort to raise new capital, and get this paper refinanced, and it is just not possible." When Crum jumped down, rumpled, bespectacled Editor Joseph Barnes, flushed and close to tears, gritted out his thanks to the staff...
...settlement was to everybody's advantage. The seven executives who had inherited the paper from "Cissy" Patterson did not want their new regime hamstrung by months of legal wrangling. Countess Gizycka did not relish the unsavory process of trying to prove that her mother had not been of sound mind when she willed the paper to her top men. Under reported terms of the settlement Cissy Patterson's daughter will get no share of the Times-Herald, but she will get the mother's Long Island home and other personal property left her under the will...
With today's issue, the CRIMSON concludes its fall term publication schedule. The next paper, a special Registration Issue, will appear Monday, and will be distributed to all students as they finish registering. On Tuesday, the CRIMSON will resume its regular Monday-through-Saturday schedule...