A Study Guide for Frank Chin's "The Chickencoop Chinaman"
... Chin'S Parents Placed Him In A Foundling Home When He Was An Infant. For The First Six Years Of His Life, Chin Lived With An Elderly White Couple In Placerville, California. After His Parents Claimed Him, Chin Lived In Oakland ...
CliffsNotes on Hsueh-chin's Dream of the Red Chamber
... Chin Sheh and Chin Chen, and the deaths of Lady Dowager and Wang Hsi-feng , all of which illustrate the decline of the Chin family. More often than not, however, Kno Ngo violates the original author's intent; for example, his depiction ...
A Study Guide for Marilyn Chin's "How I Got That Name"
... Chin was born on January 14, 1955, in Hong Kong. Her father, Gwock Gon, was a restaurant owner, and her mother's name was Yuet Kuen. As an infant, Chin was exposed to music, both informally and formally. In 1962, Chin and the women in ...
A Study Guide for Frank Chin's "Donald Duk"
... Chin also worked briefly in construction in Maui, Hawaii. It was in Maui that Chin entered a playwriting contest and wrote his first play, The Chickencoop Chinaman, which won a five-hundred-dollar prize, providing Chin with the money ...
The Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia
... CHIN . See Oxali- Tubunna , Chakan , BENG . , Celtis Tuki , TEL . , Diospyros ebenum . Tukla , Kapila , HIND ... CHIN . , Euphorbia lunu- lata . Tsein - a - pho - ta - roup , BURM . , Pachy- ma cocos . Tse - ki , CHIN . , Porcelain ...
A Manual of Philippine Birds
... Chin and throat rufous - brown ; shaft - lines wider . e1 . Smaller ; chin and throat slightly darker ......... gularis ( p . 507 ) e2 . Larger ; chin and throat slightly paler . guimarasensis ( p.508 ) ď . Chin and throat pale ...
The Commonplaces of Vocal Art
... CHIN . The floating chin and free tongue are constant watchwords of the new school of vocal culture . The tongue will easily hang free if the general buoyancy of body and a free throat be maintained , but the floating chin is perhaps a ...
Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: C to Fizzle
... CHIN - MUSIC , subs . ( American ) . - Talk ; chatter ; oratory . Cf. , CHIN - WAG . The French say casser un mot . 1872. S. L. CLEMENS ( ' Mark Twain ' ) , Roughing It , p . 332. The thing I'm now on is to roust out somebody to jek a ...
The Century Dictionary
... chin , beard , < γένυς = L. gena E. chin : : see gena and chin . ] I. a . In anat . , = pertaining to the chin ; situated on the chin ; mental.- Genial tubercles , in human anat . , four small bony processes at the symphysis menti or ...
The Literary Works of L. Da Vinci
... chin gh , is half the length of the face . The distance from the top of the nose , where the eyebrows begin , to the bottom of the chin , i k , is two thirds of the face . The space from the parting of the lips to the top of the chin 1 ...
A Dictionary of Medical Science ...
... Chin ( Sax . cyn ) . Inferior and middle part of the face , below the lower lip . China , che'nah . Cinchona ( from ... chin'kah - pin . Fagus castanea pumila . C. water , Nelumbium luteum . Chinche , chin'cha ( [ S. ] a bed - bug ) ...
Collected papers
... chin along her back . He continues in his efforts even when blindfolded with blackened adhesive tape . It was interesting to find that a single piece of adhesive tape stuck over the chin of either T. butleri or T. sirtalis completely ...
Repertory to the More Characteristic Symptoms of the Materia Medica
... Chin . Nux . Rhus . Verat . Biltous , Ars Biy . Calc . Cham . Chin . Igt . Ip . Nux . Puls . Tar . ( compare , Sect . 34. ) after anger , Cham . Coloc . Catarrhal , Amm - c . Anac . Bell . Calad . Cham . Chin . Con . Dulc . Eugen , Hep ...
Annotations to Corpus Juris
... Chin Sing Quon . 224 Fed . 752 . 1103-9 Chin Wah v . U. S. , 43 App . ( D. C. ) 38 . 1103-10 Ung Bak Foon v . Prentis , 227 Fed . 406. 142 CCA 102 . Testimony of Chinese persons , in absence of contrary rule prescribed by courts , is ...
The Republican Advocate
... Chin's acquaintance . When the debating club broke up and Chin was thinking of returning home and visiting her parents , she questioned Chêng - chang on the subject of his propaganda . He gave her full par- ticulars of his own ...
Voice, speech and gesture, by H. Campbell [and others] ed. by R.D. Blackman
... CHIN 70. A RETREATING CHIN 71. A SHARP CHIN 72. A DOUBLE CHIN 73. ANGULAR CHINS 74. FLAT CHINS 75. SMALL CHINS Signifies a positive mind . Weakness and deficiency . Acuteness and craft . Indolence , sensuality . Belong to the discreet ...
The Canadian Patent Office record and register of copyrights and trade marks
... chin check attachment , comprising the U - shaped side pieces adapted to lie upon each side of the horse's nose in a substantially upright position , a strap secured to the bases of said side pieces , and passing under the horse's chin ...
Catalog of Victor Records
... CHIN CHIN - Musical Fantasy by Anne Caldwell and Ivan Caryll Ballymooney ( Lowry ) and I've Been Floating Down Green River - Murray 17885 10.85 Ch Good - Bye Girls , I'm Through - Dixon and Ragtime Temple Bells - Murray 17715 10.85 ...
Census of India, 1891
... Chin 371 60 Burmese 417 99 21 do 135 32 do ... 154 31 : : ::: do 333 73 .. do 391 55 do 70 14 : 1,505 9 ... Chin Burmese do ... 235 13 ... 743 184 I 369 79 ... Chin 302 14 ... do 262 73 ... Burmese ... 553 125 ... : do 75 .. 9 54 ...