Word: shu
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Suitor. In Shanghai, Miss Chang Yun-shiu had the law on Ma Shu-li after he 1) protested his love for her in a letter written in blood; 2) threatened to kill her; 3) tried for the third time to climb in her bedroom window...
Love & Duty. In Louisville, Mrs. Marie Spalding bawled out her husband, a policeman, who arrested her for disorderly conduct. In Shanghai, Miss Hu Shu-cheng spurned her policeman suitor, who got her jailed for a year as a Communist...
...Shu-tang from Szechwan chimed in: "We must be strong, not weak. If someone offers us a friendly hand, we should clasp it warmly. But if someone slaps us, we should slap back twice...
...Peking, Yen gathered a large and loyal group of scholars, then traveled from village to village, setting up "people's schools." The people were eager to learn. "They appreciated tu-shu (reading)," says Yen, "but they never dreamed they could...
Hsieh Chin, also a statesman, fell into imperial disfavor, was made drunk and entombed under a bank of snow. Tu Fu admired his own admirable verse so much that he recommended it for malarial fever. Fang Shu Shao, knowing his time had come, got into his coffin and wrote: "My pen and ink shall go with me inside my funeral hearse, so that if I've leisure 'over there' I may soothe myself with verse...