What is chic may, in a sense, be fashionable, but what is fashionable cannot be chic. Anybody can wear and do what is fashionable. It is not fashionable unless a lot of people do it, and have it on—until, in three words that grate rather upon the ear, in this connection, it is common. Chic cannt be common.

In 1760-61 he was master of the local academy in Ying-ch’eng; in 1764 he had a similar position in nearby T’ien-men.

In the early days, there was often a decrease in the number of cars as we climbed the dramatically hairpinned road to Bikfaya, the large town just below Dhour that I knew for its famous peaches and a fantastic red-and-tinsel-colored toy shop, Kaiser Amer.

Chur, Sir Howard [Morrison] hooted. Chur doy, chur, which, translated, means something along the lines of: Well done, mate.