Word: k
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1950
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Jerome K. Jerome...
...material for this week's cover story on K. C. Wu, governor of threatened Formosa, has been drawn from many sources, including firsthand guidance from John Osborne, TIME-LIFE senior correspondent in the Far East. Osborne took off for the Far East a month before the Korean war began. It was a new experience for a seasoned correspondent whose geographical beat during the last 20 years has been mainly Europe and the Americas...
...judgment of his peers can. be trusted, Englishman Edmund Clerihew* Bentley wrote one of the best detective stories of the 20th Century. G. K. Chesterton flatly named Trent's Last Case (1913) "the finest detective story of modern times." Agatha Christie calls it "one of the three best detective stories ever written." Bentley himself put another book at the top of his list: John Buchan's hare & hounds thriller, The Thirty-Nine Steps. He said as much to Author Buchan one day, and Buchan replied: "Why don't you write a shocker yourself? It's twenty...
...country were bitterly contested by warlords with their private armies and by Nationalist revolutionaries. The best of the Nationalists, Chiang Kaishek, Sun's disciple, set out from Canton at the head of a revolutionary army on his famous Northern Expedition to quell the warlords. Young Nationalist K. C. Wu tried to join Chiang's army. He was rejected with the explanation: "You are too educated...
...20th Century brought chaos to China (and to most of Asia) as a habitual way of life. K. C. Wu-a technician of order who was also a democrat and a Christian-had begun his career of fighting chaos...