Lossing

Lossing is loosing and she cannot keep changing the rules and moving the goal post.

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Poems '-- I could easily be better than I am --' Lossing's History of the

With the Procession Henry Blake Fuller 1893

“I should like to tell you that the more the years pass the happier we are together and the more glad that we found each other,” she wrote of herself and Lossing: “ours is a real marriage of minds and spirits and we seem to grow more and more happy in it.”

PEARL BUCK IN CHINA Hilary Spurling 2010

Janice caught whooping cough, Lossing had several rotten teeth extracted, and Pearl told Emma she was starting a new novel to pass the time.

PEARL BUCK IN CHINA Hilary Spurling 2010

“They were pretty brazen about it,” said Lossing, who left on a field trip for Tibet soon after Richard moved into his house.

PEARL BUCK IN CHINA Hilary Spurling 2010

But Nanxuzhou was a chapter that had closed for both Pearl and Lossing.

PEARL BUCK IN CHINA Hilary Spurling 2010

Lossing, who dreaded American military intervention more than Chinese battles—“we are living … in fear of what our own home government will do”—persuaded 127 Nanking missionaries to sign a telegram advising Washington that any use of force would be counterproductive.

PEARL BUCK IN CHINA Hilary Spurling 2010

Carie warned her daughter against rushing into marriage, pointing out that Lossing had never read a book in his life and that an agricultural degree was hardly what the Sydenstrickers considered education.

PEARL BUCK IN CHINA Hilary Spurling 2010

Lossing would spend the greater part of his life systematically gathering, sorting, tabulating, and processing this kind of material.

PEARL BUCK IN CHINA Hilary Spurling 2010

My next great debt is to Ye Gongping Ernie Yeh of Nanjing Agricultural University for invaluable and indefatigable research, for translating documents, and for sharing with me his extensive knowledge of John Lossing Buck.

PEARL BUCK IN CHINA Hilary Spurling 2010