Word: jade
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have to know your business around here, and its a mighty complicated one. First you break your back talking Jupiter or that Venus for a ride, and the next minute you have to give some Chinese jade a bath." Then a really potent epigram was coined. Suddenly turning from the tub in which the jades and vases were being bathed, he shook a pipe-stem at the Venus. "I've seen lots of signs in museums in my time, but I guess they ought to stick a 'Hands Off' sign on her all right...
...sophisticated painter, does her work well, suggesting an exotic atmosphere with diminishing ovals, soft colors. She did not always charge her patrons for her work. Said she: "My reluctance profited me shamefully. Soft-footed coolies would come to the door with great bundles of priceless silk. Coral necklaces, jade bracelets, jewels marvelous for their antiquity as well as their intrinsic worth, all were sent as tokens of friendship and return of courtesy...
...ivory rattle, ordered by sensible Catherine the Great for her children; 4) a gold stage-coach four inches long and an inch and a half high with a 20-carat diamond* cut like a lantern swinging within; 5) the Queen Victoria paper weight, displaying that sovereign carved dumpily in jade, wearing a diamond crown...
...side rooms of the theatre all bear names for the patrons' convenience in making appoint ments. They are the Elizabethan Room (containing porcelain heads in hair dresses from the time of Queen Elizabeth to now), Peacock Promenade, Chinoiserie (women's smoking rooms), Club Room, Hunting Room, Jade Room, Powder Box, Venetian Room, Marie An toinette Room, Colonial Room, Empire Room and Music Room. The auditorium, simulating French Renaissance architecture, is dec orated in ivory, rose-red and turquoise blue. Some 38 years ago, the Atlantic washed onto the shores of the U. S. an entirely insignificant underfed...
From his old, gray slab before University John Harvard, almost blithely, steps forth and limbers his jade green legs preparatory to moving over to the stadium for the formal welcome of these play boys of the Jersey world. Nor is he completely bored by his duties as host. Cambridge, is such an ancient, gloomy place! John is really quite gay about the young visitors--and, frankly, it is rumored that he is going to continue gay, even late into the afternoon, wild animals to the contrary not with standing...