Word: shan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their presence." Forever China is a literary adventure and discovery. It sometimes suffers from, overwriting and hyperbole. But these are minor flaws among the major pleasures of a superior book. There is a good sample of the Payne style in his evaluation of the bygone Chinese warrior-poet Shen Shan...
...Burrows' sal ary jumps from $832 as a railway checker to $36,000 a year, and up to $176,040 in allowances. He leaves his six-room Herefordshire cottage for a palace in Calcutta. He and his wife took the news in stride. Said Dora Beatrice Burrows: "We shan't be any different. We are working people and always will be. I'll try to do everything I am expected to do. I need more coupons for dresses, though...
...talks were going on in Chungking, saw plenty of fighting between the Nationalists and Communists. The Communists made bitter and partly successful efforts to seize North China and wreck the Nationalist chance of successful occupation. A fortnight ago in northwest Shansi, bailiwick of aging "Model Governor" Marshal Yen Hsi-shan, a Communist concentration ambushed 10,000 of Marshal Yen's troops, and killed several thousand of them before they could be extricated. Hundreds of miles farther north, many a day's march beyond the scene of Marshal Yen's trouble, in Suiyuan Province, a large force under...
...thrombosis; in Bournemouth, England. Forced to call his first press conference when a frustrated U.S. press demanded more news about the impending 1939 visit of the King & Queen, Sir Ronald patiently bore flashbulbs and impertinent questions, disarmed newsmen by saying, "I don't pretend to enjoy this, but shan't we have another...
...police received an anonymous letter. It sounded incredible, but they investigated. Then the story came out: since April, Liao Chang-shin, with the assistance of one Hsui Chang-shan, had robbed and killed 78 people, most of them guests at his inn. When police caught Liao, he was about to dispose of Victim No. 79, who had given him $90,000 (Chinese) for safekeeping. Last week Liao and Hsui were awaiting death after confessing that they had averaged a little over a murder...