Word: ling
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Henry Killam Murphy of New York, architectural adviser to the Nationalist Government of China (TIME, Oct. 14). designer of Peking Union Medical College, Yale-in-China, Ginling College; and Mrs. Dagny Carter, who was given in marriage by Hon. Nelson Trusler Johnson, U. S. Minister to China: at Gin-ling College. Nanking. Architect Murphy's best man: Dr. C. T. Wang, Chinese National Government's Minister of Foreign Affairs...
Petal-of-the-Rose was the unwanted daughter of the learned, sensual, hard-hearted aristocrat Ou Tsong Ling. Of no account in her father's eyes, she led a secluded and boring existence shut up in the women's apartments until the Japanese, in revenge for the killing of a French missionary, sent a punitive expedition to the city. Then all the women, including Petal-of-the-Rose, were raped, thought that more lively than doing nothing all day long. Author Pettit writes suavely, ironically, often appositely, of philosophy, Christianity, "the facts of life," protects himself from censorship...