Word: jade
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...SECRET OF AHBOR VALLEY - Talbot Mundy - Bobbs Merrill ($2.00). Ommony-who knew as much about India as any white man could know-sought his sister and her husband in the Ahbor Valley, whence no man ever returned. He sought also the secret of the broken bit of green jade and of the wise old Ringding Gelong Lama, who had an Oxford degree and was found to be importing European little girls into the Ahbor Valley...
...Miln Plays Yankee Doodle on a Lute of Jade...
...which the old regime rested. In the Hermitage are exhibited 45 of the greatest paintings of Rembrandt and a collection of Persian objets d'art that is indubitably the finest in the world, both in the number and the quality of the pieces. Golden daggers from Turkestan, jade seals, incense-burners embellished with rubies, pots set with a thousand emeralds, and blades from Damascus curved like evil moons−the treasure of a fairy-tale empire that came to an end, as is the way with fairy tales−and empires...
...TREASURE OF Ho-L. Adams Beck-Dodd, Mead ($2.00). Tucked in between covers of Chinese blue, with unruffled Chinese cranes strutting on them, is an absorbing tale of jade, dragons, chop suey, hidden shrines, legendary treasure, lotus flowers, all served up with an authentic Oriental flavor. It is the story of one John Mallerdean, in the Peking Customs Service, whose great-great uncle first got a foot in China's open door by curing the Emperor Chienlung of his gout and temper. A most provocative mixture of fact and fancy, some at least of Mallerdean's adventures...
...went on, "extends from the northern part of India through a narrow province of modern China to the valley of the Yellow River. This province, Kansu, is where we did most of our work, finding traces of Chinese art, influenced by the Indian Buddhist traders who brought ponies and jade to exchange for the wool and skins of the Tartars. This art is in the form of statues and frescoes left in caves, shrines and temples from the border of Turkestan to Loyang, where the Chinese civilization of that day was centered...