Word: rickshas
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...Ceiling (Jan.). In Tokyo, ricksha boys and pedestrians sprinted their damnedest to comply with U.S. 35-m.p.h. speed-limit signs...
...William Gray, his wife "Freddie," and their three children, looked forward to being in their new house on Columbia Road. Said Gray: "We'll hang up the sang chi sheng (mistletoe) and the mao erh to tzu (cat's ears or thorn of holly) and startle passing ricksha boys with God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen...
...Indians came up one of Simla's highest, loveliest, fir-green hills to the viceregal lodge. Jawaharlal Nehru rode on a brown-and-white-spotted Yarkand pony; fierce-eyed Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel and goateed Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad each came in a ricksha pulled by four runners; tall, bearded Khan Abdul Ghaffar came on his own long legs; Mohamed Ali Jinnah and his Moslem League delegation in an ancient, khaki-colored Humber sedan...
Humbly, therefore, the ricksha men beg the Government to promulgate a method by which the ricksha men will be taught another calling and be of use to China's industry. Humbly, too, they beg that the life of rickshas be prolonged for ten years...
...Herrington, a hefty (198 lbs.), lighthearted medic, is a famed old China hand. When Brooks Atkinson of the New York Times was in Chungking, he described Herrington's reputation as "stupendous." Like many a U.S. country doctor, Herrington ministered to rich & poor alike; paid for treatment of a ricksha boy out of his own pocket, carried a gold watch inscribed...