Word: rickshaws
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ceiling. In Tokyo, rickshaw boys and pedestrians sprinted their damnedest to comply with U.S. 35-m.p.h. speed limit signs...
Strongest indication of the general drought appeared in the July-August selections of the nation's largest "book clubs." The Book-of-the-Month Club desperately dug up Rickshaw Boy (Reynal & Hitchcock; $2.75), a translation of a seven-year-old Chinese novel by Lau Shaw about "a humble man's dream of owning his own rickshaw." It is a dream, said Clubster Lewis Gannett, filled with the "love of a steady run and a good sweat." (As "dividend,"the Club tossed in the eight-months-old novel, The Green Years, by standard best-seller A. J. Cronin...
...morning after her arrival Jacoby got a cable transferring him to Manila. He proposed from rickshaw to rickshaw as they jogged over bomb-pitted streets to attend a missionary's reception. To her rickshaw drawn by a straining coolie he shouted: "Say, will you marry me?" Pretty dark-eyed Annalee, craning backward, shouted: "What did you say?" Repeated Jacoby: "I said, will you marry me?" No answer. At the reception, between introductions, he pressed for an answer. He got it after Annalee said "How do you do" to the fifth missionary. "Yes," she said...
...China, Christian institutional and educational work looms as large as evangelism. The 271 Protestant hospitals and the 267 Catholic hospitals and asylums have in the past generation worked themselves into the consciousness of Chinese of every class. The humblest rickshaw coolie knows where to go to have his mucus-draining eyes treated, or who will help when his wife has childbed fever. The 13 Protestant colleges. 255 Protestant middle schools, six Protestant medical schools and three Catholic colleges today are some of the chief sources of Government leadership. The best engineers, doctors and scientists come from mission universities...
Early this year the Japanese attempted to give Alcott a physical tossing around. Jap terrorists tried to drag him out of a rickshaw in the American Defense Zone of the International Settlement, but he escaped through an alley. Since then he has used a Packard with bulletproof glass, toted a gun. Busy as a bird dog, Alcott serves as cable editor of the China Press between broadcasts, improvises his scripts from news flashes that come over his desk. Married recently to a White Russian he met in the Settlement, Alcott is thinking of settling down. If the Japs...