Word: jades
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...moved into a handsome ten-room mansion in Clarksburg, puttered with a valuable collection of jade in his off-hours and tended two hutches of black & white squirrels. The two Johnson girls grew up and moved away...
...tunghsi, or curio salesmen, find business rough. Their bronzes, brasswork and jade figurines bring only a quarter of the price they commanded last winter. One tunghsi man reminisces mournfully: "The mandarin coats-ah! We used to sell them for $20 apiece. When we ran out of real ones we went to the undertakers and bought up their supply of secondhand burial clothes. The burial clothes were even more ornate, and the Americans were twice as happy...
...Swedish damsel, Flanders jade, A dark Eiran colleen, A Chink, a Jap, a Negro maid, A primitive Slovene, Let chance but send a wench of these To mop our dusty floor, To wash our dinner dishes, please-We do not ask for more...
Painted in microscopic detail, often with a single-hair brush, the caravan sparkles and shines against freely sketched crags. As one critic put it, each tiny figure seems carved in jade. But like many a Western master, Ch'iu found little fame while he lived; his work had been too meticulous for the contemporary taste...
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...