Word: compartmentized
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At the Tokyo railway station as Mr. Hsieh's train coasted in, 13 masters of Japanese court ceremonies stood like statues behind alert, businesslike Foreign Minister Count Yasuya Uchida, representing the State, and rheumy-eyed old Minister of the Imperial Household Kitokuro Ichiki representing the ''Son of...
Evangeline was young, beautiful, full of curiosity about Life. She had just finished school at Lausanne and was supposed to go straight home to north Oxford, to her drearily respectable aunt. But Andre, a lesser Ziegfeld of Paris, happened to share her compartment. That was how it all started. Evangeline...
Last week King George had a dinner of fine plump red Scotch grouse shipped by express from Balmoral Castle, but many another grouse-loving Briton ate mutton or went hungry. On the morning of the Twelfth-opening date of the Scottish grouse season-a violent thunderstorm swept over the moors...
". . . She was traveling alone in a first-class compartment when the conductor said he wanted the compartment himself. When the newspaper woman ordered out the conductor he declared her ticket invalid, demanded payment and tried to seize her baggage. The young American woman defended her property with her fists and...
From within the ship were removed to storage most detachable parts, including the instruments (with their legends in German); including also the pictures which decorated the smoking compartment-a cartoon of the ship by a member of the crew, a tropical scene by the daughter of an officer in Panama...