Word: jaded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Boylston Prizes for Elocution. To some thirty or forty men, that competition means a chance to recite some recognized literary gem in hopes of winning a cash prize. To all others who pay any attention to it, the Lee Wade and Boylston competition represents a revival of the old jade of elocution, strangely out of place in a modern college...
...town," and lechery, after all, is always to the point. An excellent shot, which seems to give promise that the old girl can act, is that in which Mae shows her presents to a friend; you will see what I mean when you hear her say, "It's real jade ... he said," in a tone of trusting naivete which touches the heights. On the other hand, the scenes which attempt to portray some queer form of true love, suddenly burgeoning in the largest of American bosoms, are not so rosy; perhaps they are too much out of character...
...used some of it for dresses. They never wear out, so when they have seen a few years' service, I put them away and after an interval bring them out again and have them made over. She also sent me two rings, a pair of earrings, some white jade, a white fox coat, and an ermine coat. The Chinese had a very proper idea of gifts!" And a bit of really ancient history: ". . . Instead of saying nothing and letting Nick go to the dinner, I told him the horrid news of the seating, whereat he promptly said he would...
...Emperor lived. Except for U. S. and European soldiers who looted it during the Boxer Rebellion, not 20 white men in the world had set foot in that forbidden preserve until the fall of the Empire in 1911. Until 1911, it contained the greatest assemblage of treasure: gold, jade, precious stone, porcelain, ancient paintings, carvings, that the world has seen since the fall of the Mogul Empire in India...
...remain in a corner of the Forbidden City until 1924, when Christian General Feng kicked him out and into the arms of Japan. But ever since the fall of the empire the more portable part of his inherited treasure has been dribbling away, a Ming vase here, a jade bowl there. Even so, enough remains to dazzle the eyes and tire the feet of the most ardent tourist...