Word: shu
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...days before China was troubled by the ways of Western civilization, fell into converse-and love-in the course of his peregrinations with a pleasant willow-pattern young lady nicknamed the "Golden Mouse"-and in the very same day acquired the undying enmity of the execrable Ming-Shu, chief henchman of the Mandarin Shan Tien. Kai Lung was brought to the Mandarin for judgment. "He raised his rebellious voice," remarked the prosecutor unpleasantly. "The usual remedy in such cases ... is strangulation." Everything was ready for the necktie-party, when Kai Lung, previously advised by the Golden Mouse, began to spill...