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Throngs of women and children brought gifts-carved jade, Meissen chinaware, jeweled watches-to their heroes, the Anglo-U.S. airmen. Some 1,300 German laborers, of whom 75% were women, started work on a new airport in the city's French sector (see cut). Said Christian Democrat Leader Jakob Kaiser: "Fifty days of blockade have proved that what was supposed to force Berlin to surrender to a foreign will has been transformed into democracy's greatest victory in Germany since...
Thus began the last hour of Yoshiko's strange life. She was born, the Princess Chin Pi-hui (Radiant Jade) of the Manchu dynasty, overthrown in 1911 by China's Sun Yatsen. She had been adopted by a member of Japan's powerful Black Dragon society, renamed Yoshiko (Beautiful One), reared man-fashion in the warrior code of Nippon. As a girl she dedicated herself to the overthrow of the Chinese Republic and the restoration of her house. She became a Japanese spy, masquerading as a taxi-dancer, a Chinese soldier, even as a Korean prostitute (Chinese...
Last week Honolulu stores sold grass skirts, wooden roses and jade jewelry, while traffic honked around neighboring Piggly Wiggly stores and office buildings which looked as if they had been moved, stone by stone, from the Midwest...
...emerald bird in a golden cage set with pearls, on a jade base...
About actors, authors, painters there is almost nothing a critic cannot safely say -as long as he sticks to a criticism of their public performance.* Sample, from the Des Moines Leader, describing the Cherry Sisters at the turn of the century: "Erne is an old jade of 50 summers; Jessie is a frisky filly of 40; and Addie, the flower of the family, a capering monstrosity of 35. Their long skinny arms . . . swing mechanically [and wave] frantically at the suffering audience. The mouths of their rancid features opened like caverns, and sounds like the waitings of damned souls issued therefrom...