Word: ricksha
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nelson Johnson is a regular Old King Cole. He is plump as a pillow. He has thinning pale-gold hair, with lashes and brows to match, a face all shades of pink, from salmon to sunset, big enough nose, strong chin, mouth with a chronic smile. In ricksha, cutaway or gas mask he looks more like a tire salesman than an Ambassador...
Please discontinue the roster of women hauled in rickshas by college coolies [TIME, Aug. 5 ]. This short haul idea will spread and does not need endorsement. The rider gets a superior feeling. The puller gets needed cash. Industry has a new article to manufacture and in time we forget we've sunk to an Oriental level. Promoters will circus ricksha marathons and soon the fine points of the white human horse will be contrasted with those of the black one. Personally I'd back my old Chinese puller against the finest any college could turn...
...keep his people from exploding, Chinese President Chiang Kai-shek labored day & night, and with success. No Japanese subject was lynched last week anywhere in territory controlled by the Nanking Government. In the International Settlement of Shanghai (which has its own police) one Japanese riding in a ricksha was knocked out of it by Chinese mobsters who later knocked in the fronts of two Chinese tobacco shops selling Japanese cigarets...