Word: shanghai
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Singing Waiter's rise from Rags to Riches that the reversal hardly lends enough body to his biographer's Cinderella-theme. When Berlin was 19, Nigger Mike discharged him. Within four years, he had written a tune which was played in every corner of the U. S., in Shanghai, Moscow and along the Riviera, which "came in brass across the harbor of Singapore from the boats riding at anchor there"?Alexander's Ragtime Band. Within four years more, he had written hundreds of other successful songs, including When That Midnight Choo Choo Leaves for Alabam, Everybody's Doin...
Pacific Mail Steamship Co. (The "California-Orient Line") from San Francisco to Honolulu to Japan (Kobe, Yokahama) to China (Shanghai) to the Philippines (Manila) and return...
...Dollar Line (TIME, Sept. 24, 1923). These the white-bearded merchant Captain Robert (''Robbie") Dollar and his son, R. Stanley Dollar, put to work in a unique round-the-world one-way service. One sails every fortnight from each of the following ports in circuit: San Francisco, Honolulu, Kobe, Shanghai, Hongkong, Manila, Singapore, Penang, Colombo, Suez, Port Said, Alexandria, Naples, Genoa, Marseille, Boston, New York, Havana, Colon, Balboa, Los Angeles, San Francisco and around again. They carry about 100 passengers who are permitted stopovers. These globe-girdlers...
...criticism and praise that are sent you by your readers, I'll add my little contribution. In your account of the Lincheng bandit outrage of May 6, 1923 (TIME, Mar. 2, 1925, Page 10) there were a few inaccuracies. It was the Tientsin-Pukow express and not the "Peking-Shanghai" express that was derailed. Not nearly 300 Chinese were carried off into captivity. Nearly 30 would be nearer the truth. And the 24 foreigners captured were not all taken to their impregnable lair. All of the women captives were released on the very day of their capture except the young...
...material brightness of Hinduism, but it developed the fighting man. Hardy, victory-or-die, well-disciplined sort of fellow, the Sikh has become without peer the greatest soldier in Asia. Him the British found hardest to conquer. Having conquered him, they found him their great military asset overseas. In Shanghai and other treaty ports of China, the only constabulary are the long-haired, short-drawered Sikhs.* And, in India, it is the Sikhs who keep the peace...