Word: sampan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...houses, Chinese hoisted scraps of cloth for shade and gazed glumly at muddy water, five to 15 feet deep, that roiled through the streets, stretched as far as they could see. On rafts made of doors, on treasured family coffins, on crude inflated goatskin life-preservers, on junks and sampans, refugees from outlying districts were cruising aimlessly. An Associated Press man went about in a sampan to see what he could see. At one point his boatman nosed up to an aged couple, up to their armpits in dirty, pestilential water, told them to move aside. They signalled...
...California, Missouri and Kansas, but retired from pulpiteering proper in 1908, went to Arizona "as a matter of health insurance." There he still lives, in a Spanish-Mission house near Tucson. He has recently (February) returned from Hawaii, where he worked on Exit, fished for mahimahi from a sampan. Twice married, ex-Preacher Wright has three children, all issue of the first wife...