Word: silks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With a name that sounds like a sneeze, Hsieh Kai-shih (pronounced sheh ky-shee) set gloriously out from Manchukuo's capital fortnight ago, bedight in brand new robes of Chinese silk (TIME, Oct. 24). Hours before his train was due in Tokyo Japanese schoolmarms excused little boys and girls from classes, washed the children's hands, stuck a clean Japanese flag into each chubby fist and let the moppets off in droves to shriek "Banzai! May you live 10,000 years...
Chen, furious at being cheated of the graft he had expected to get as Governor, got out his short, sharp Chinese war hatchet last week. While Li quaffed rice whiskey and quaked at his friends' jokes, Chen in the flowing robes and silk slippers of a Privy Councilor approached noiselessly from the rear. Eyewitnesses saw only a flash of steel, a gush of blood. Quick as a snake's tongue the hatchet had slipped out of the Privy Councilor's voluminous silk sleeve, split Li's head and vanished into the sleeve again. Grave, bland...
Jean Harlow quit work in Red Dust for a week when her second husband, Paul Bern Levy, assistant production chief of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, shot himself dead (TIME, Sept. 19). Soon afterward the body of Bern's common-law first wife, Dorothy Millette, clothed in a black silk dress, was found in Georgiana Slough in the Sacramento River, caught in brushwood under low-hanging willows. Bern's will left all he had to Jean Harlow, but the Sacramento Public Administrator claimed half his estate for the estate of Dorothy Millette as his "legal" wife. In Hollywood, Jean Harlow...
...Silk-robed mandarins with ornate shoes turned up at the toes hailed the bland, plump youth as Emperor of Annam, the "Absolute Master and Father and Mother." In the mountain of royal baggage, unseen by Annamites, were 7,000 phonograph records, a French-English-Italian library, ten ping-pong sets and a hundred dozen ping-pong balls. Not for nothing has 19-year-old Emperor Bao Dai spent half his life in Paris, coached by Frenchmen to rule Annam as France directs. On his return to Hue the perfectly drilled Emperor replied in rapid, flawless French to greetings voiced...
...smart Liu extorted $100,000 mex. from Chefoo establishments most apt to be patronized by sailors. Pocketing perhaps half this money, Liu nevertheless spent at least $50.000 mex. to improve Chefoo's police force, to push his superb street paving program and to encourage his new Institute of Silk Culture. Liu, frankly a bandit who worked up into the roles of petty statesman and local philanthropist, had only one real fault during the summer. He did withhold (steal) all of Chefoo's local revenues from Governor Han of Shantung...