Word: queues
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...chance to exhibit a well-shaped calf. Indeed it seems strange that diplomats and statesmen have not recognized the truth of this before, and spared their dignities and their heads by a well-earned distribution of raiment. The American has had his "red-cost", the Chinaman his Manchu queue, the English Cavalier his ground-heard the Frenchman his culottes Descending from the national level even the "Harvard hat" has been its own little storm, center of parental wrath...
There is also that great British theatrical institution, the pit. You stand in line at the door for a length of time in a length of queue depending upon the success of the play?then the whistle Wows and you all crowd in and try to grab the nearest available seat to the barrier that cages the pit-devotees away from the swells in the stalls. Thus, if you don't get your eye gouged out in the rush, you obtain what would be in I New York a $2.75 orchestra seat for a good deal less. The pit need...
...queue for the final Proceedings on Monday began to form at noon on the previous day, and as much as five pounds was paid for early places in it." "The final proceedings" were those of the Ilford murder trial and "the queue" was outside the "Old Bailey" in London. In America such a statement would be merely a matter of passing interest and amusement to most mortals, and only for a few reformers and very respectable dailies would "the whole furore" become a "noxious sing of the hysteria of the times...
...striking example of a quick turnabout on the part of the Chinese was given in 1911 when in connection with the revolt against the Manchus, the Cantonese first, and then the Chinese of other provinces almost completely eliminated the queue in a very few days. This was very forcibly impressed upon me by my own observation on December 10th of that year. In my hotel at luncheon, all the waiters and houseboys were wearing queues and at dinner time not a single queue was to be seen, though many hands were raised to the backs of heads to make perfectly...
...lived at Hartford until within a year, has, on his return to China, been appointed chief magistrate, or taotai, of the city of Shanghai. Mr. Yung Wing's case is remarkable, from the facts that he is a professed Christian, has an American wife and wears no queue...