Word: ricksha
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...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...
...committed suicide when their homes were confiscated, the eight contractors condemned more land, tore down more houses to straighten the roadway. One of the new houses condemned for the memorial road belonged to a Nanking university professor. Four times he went to the municipal offices, spent $1.80 on ricksha fares. On the fourth trip he received a warrant for the value of his house - total $1.90. The professor donated the 10? profit to the Dr. Sun Yat-sen memorial fund...
...symposium, is among the very best of the sixteen contributions, disclaims the spirituality of the Orient, often sweepingly exhibited as an ideal of a more untrammeled civilization, and asks "What spirituality is there in a civilization that tolerates such a terrible form of human slavery as the ricksha Coolie...
...land in an airplane on my parade ground this morning. The scoundrel! What are we coming to, sir? And, when I informed him that he had no business to fly over the British army, that it was contrary to international law, that I should keep his jolly old flying ricksha, and that I was really awfully cross and perturbed and should report him to the authorities?after I had thus unburdened myself, sir, the rascally fellow insulted...