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...Turning his jewel box upside down, generous Henry counted out 800 pearls from the dwindling hoard. By a trusty messenger the Imperial pearls and Imperial sables were despatched "with Mr. Henry P'u-yi's compliments" to the chief Peking agency of native famine relief, the great vernacular newspaper He Ta Kung...
...China's 400 millions who can read chuckled last week at vernacular newspaper accounts of a coup by the wily bandit chief of Megntzu. The 40% hastened to spread the story among their less literate brethren...
Often called "the foremost Chinese thinker of today" is Hu Shih, for nine years Professor of Philosophy at Peking University, and later Dean of the English Department, the first Chinese to write poetry in the spoken vernacular, vigorous editor for many a moon of the slightly radical Chinese weekly Endeavor, and frequently mentioned as likely to accept this portfolio or that in the Chinese Nationalist Government...
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Countless generations of fox hunting folk have established a crystalized vernacular. "A huntsman" is a hunt servant who "hunts hounds"; "whippers-in" are servants who keep hounds in place; "the M. F. H." (Master of Fox Hounds) is social head of the hunt, and disciplinary leader of "the field"; other riders are "fox hunters" or "riders-to-hounds"; "hunter," used singly, refers to a jumping horse used for following hounds...