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...original staff consisted merely of a gatekeeper, a janitor and the doctor. They hung out a black-and-gold lacquered sign reading Yali I Yuan (Yale Court of Medicine), and patients began to drift in. Yali I Yuan was the first Yale-in-China medical unit, forerunner of Hsiang Ya ("Hsiang" for Hunan, "Ya" for Yale) Hospital and Medical School...
...sample: in Joe's first fight, the referee, a ghastly old bruiser, turns out to be the brother of Joe's opponent. "When ya knock 'm out," he tells his brother, "go ta dat cawnah, Frankie, and I'll count." Then comes a belt-bursting belly laugh: to the pictorial amazement of the referee, Joe not only knocks Frankie out with one punch, but knocks him clean through the floor boards of the ring. But the canvas is unbroken and cradles him as he sags slowly, dreamily out of sight...
...their straw-and-mud shantytowns, in the hong (company) sheds where they rent their vehicles, in cheap teahouses from Chungking to Peiping, the ricksha men shook their heads over the prospect. Ai-ya! Ai-ya! Truly, as the Sage had written, "it is difficult to be poor and not grumble." What now would become of them...
What Hearstpaper D'Ya Read? Then the editors of the Mirror got their early edition of the Sunday Journal-American -and gulped. Splashed across the top of its front page was a bitter headline...
...Gumbo Ya-Ya (which is Cajun for "Everybody talks at once") contains instructive chapters on crapshooting, how to play the lottery, the decaying Creoles, the decaying plantations, slaves and slave tortures, buried treasure, the New Orleans slums, the Mississippi River front, its roustabouts and their jargon, and New Orleans cemeteries to which, during rainy spells, coffins sometimes have to be brought in boats and forced under the muddy water with poles...