Word: jades
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wellington Koo, wealthy wife of the Chinese Ambassador to Great Britain, is a collector of jade and friends, a famed hostess, a noted linguist (English, French, Dutch, German, Mandarin, Malay)-and an unpublished author. For four years she has worked on an autobiography, but only recently did her busy husband, now in the U.S., find time to read it. Two days before the book was due to go on sale last week, more than 6,000 booksellers and critics who already had copies got a hurried telegram from Dial Press: "Publication suspended...
...Senators watched in curious silence as Madame Chiang walked down the aisle of the Senate Chamber. They saw a still face with big dark eyes. They saw a slim, straight figure in a black Chinese gown, with here a tiny splash of jade, there a black sequin's understated sparkle. Madame Chiang stepped to the rostrum, listened as Vice President Wallace introduced her, shot a smile at the Senators, and then, after apologizing for not having a set speech, knocked their silvery blocks off extemporaneously...
...Legion of Honor and Officier d'Instruction Publique with gold palms (French), Commander of the Order of the Crown (Italy), Commander of the Order of the Crown (Rumania), holder of the Royal Victorian Order (British), the Order of Simon Bolivar (Venezuela), the Chinese Order of the Jade, the Hungarian Cross of Merit II, the Hungarian Cross of Merit with Star...
...faultless technique, but most of all by an extraordinary gift for color harmonies of plum reds, jade greens and opulent blues, he endows each small painting with a kind of finality of mood. Pushman admirers are quieted, looking into the silence he frames for them. He has no interest in the prize shows, none in modern painting or painters. He is one of two painters* who in 117 years have refused election to the National Academy...
Mexican archeologists, working carefully with equipment that ranged from trucks to toothbrushes, had found no palaces of jade or emeralds. Already excavated: a great pyramid used for sacrificial rites, the magnificent, though ruined, temple of Quetzalcoatl; a double T-shaped "basketball" court used in ancient ceremonial ball games; two eight-ton monolithic statues, among the largest ever found in Mexico. As yet unexcavated, but measured and probed, were several large palaces, some containing as many as 30 rooms...