I Meant Every Word He Said I Meant Every Word He Said "I Meant Every Word He Said" is a song co-written by Joe Chambers, Bucky Jones and Curly Putman, and recorded by American country music artist Ricky Van Shelton. It was released in June 1990 as the third single from the album "RVS III". It peaked at number 2 on the "Billboard" Hot Country Songs chart and reached number 1 on the Canadian "RPM" country singles chart. The narrator tells his former love that everything her new man is telling her is what he really meant to tell her himself. She gets married to the
Twilight in the Forbidden City Twilight in the Forbidden City Twilight in the Forbidden City () is Reginald Johnston's 486-page memoir of Henry Puyi, who had been the Xuantong Emperor of the Qing dynasty. Johnston was tutor to the Emperor and an eyewitness to events in China in the 1920s and 1930s. Johnston was also a professor of Chinese at the University of London as well as the British Commissioner of Weihaiwei. "Twilight in the Forbidden City" was prefaced by Puyi himself in the year 1931. Johnston provides a good deal of anecdotal material for the last days of the Qing court before the 1911