Word: po
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...flaying the Nationalist for disrupting a Communist Chinatown meeting with well-aimed, overripe bananas and large juicy watermelons. Aggravation was not due merely to criticism of the raid, of which the Nationalist was most proud. But the Journal editorial referred to Li Chi Ming, wife of Nationalist Editor Chen Po, as a "dew wife...
...Chen Po, young, pert, Sorbonne-educated, happily-married, explained what "dew wife" means to a Chinawoman, as follows: "Dew only exists in the early morning. . . . Dew, therefore, in Chinese sense, means changeableness, unreliableness and temporariness." Poetic though it sounds, calling a lady a "dew wife" is thus tantamount to hinting that her husband is a cuckold...
...ANTHOLOGY or WORLD POETRY-Edited by Mark Van Doren-Simon & Schuster ($5). Discrimination as well as scope is in this fine piece of editing. The authors range from Li Tai-po to Sappho and Goethe; the translators from Swinburne to Edwin Arlington Robinson...
Devil worshippers were glad: The Roerichs found a Buddhism twisted topsy-turvy, the black faith of Bon Po. They worship demons, hate Buddhists, have their peculiar saints with a central, legendary protector similar to Buddha. The swastika is one of their symbols...
...Chinese from native teachers in London. He has never been east of Suez, and yet he is a recognized authority on literature and art of the Far East. By profession Assistant in the Oriental Section of the British Museum Print Room, his favorite diversion is the poetry of Chinese Po Chui...