Word: jadedly
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...cherish their earthquakes as they do their cable cars-generally took the day in stride. Perhaps the most characteristic act was that of the gift-shop owner who stood quietly with the customers during the worst shock, and then poured a drink of bourbon all around in cups of jade...
...Museum of Fine Arts, to design the new mansion, including a library of Jacobean carved-oak paneling (see cut). To furnish the town house, Antique Dealer Arthur Vernay ransacked his own collection, sent scouts throughout Europe. The result has borne well the test of time. For the jade, Chinese porcelains, 18th-century French furniture, paneling, fixtures. Royal Beauvais tapestries by Jean-Baptiste Oudry, paintings by Watteau, Gainsborough, Lawrence, Romney and Raeburn. the current market will pay back the investment, and more than make up for the toll of inflation...
Last week Cholon's streets were strangely subdued. Its shops, which once stayed open till the small hours of the morning, now closed at sunset, and in the Pavilion of Jade cabaret the "little flowers" found few dancing partners among the once ebullient Chinese businessmen. Officially, Cholon (which means "big market") had even ceased to exist and was simply one more district of Saigon...
Merchants he had neglected in town hurried to the chateau to display their choicest wares. The Count Foucou de Gines (rhymes roughly with jeans) picked over their offerings judiciously, settled on 20 jade statuettes, a few more paintings, some luxury editions of books. By the time he was through, the count had written checks for $71,000 worth of bric-a-brac. The count's secretary, taking advantage of an old French custom, scurried around to each merchant and demanded 10% commission on everything his master had bought. He collected, in cash, some 2,000,000 francs...
...surgeon with a canny eye for investments. His taste in art he owes to his mother, who began collecting Chinese antiques and Oriental snuff bottles in 1918, later took the whole Fuller family on a year-long junket through the Far East. Recalls Fuller: "I bought a small white jade in Hong Kong, and from then on nothing has been quite the same." Settling in Seattle, Fuller earned a Ph.D. in geology, a field in which he has won professional recognition, and revitalized Seattle's Northwest Glass Co. (he is now chairman of the board). But art remained...