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True it is, as Patrick Henry, come to life again, says in your issue of Feb. 13 [LETTERS], that Chinese students and certain others resent the use of the term "Chinaman" as applied to them. But why? Their term is Tsoong Kok Nyung, which is, literally, Chinaman. And while in...
Mr. Hoover. To Colonel Thad H. Brown of Columbus, Ohio, and anyone else who cared to read it, Candidate Hoover wrote a letter. The language was clumsy here and there but the meaning was clear. Wrote Candidate Hoover:
Webster's New International disparages the "obsolete, rare or English" sense in which "Chinaman" means "a dealer in porcelain," but fully authorizes the meaning "a Chinese," in which sense alone "Chinaman" is occasionally used by TIME.
As does not often happen, the meaning of both august orators appeared most clearly and concisely from their actual words. So vociferously was each statesman cheered by his own parliamentary audience, without regard to party, that it could be truly said: "The people of Germany are debating with the people...
Tex Rickard trumpeted from Florida and the nation's press picked up the echoes greedily. Said the famed promoter: "Jack Dempsey is through with the ring." Said Fisticuffer Dempsey in California: "If Tex says so I guess it's true." Failing sight owing to socks in and about...