Word: jades
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...dark brown warmth. To be sure, there was bric-a-brac, there was the sky blue oriental, there were landscapes, and there were the chandeliers, but this did not matter; for there were outstretched legs with two shiny boots at their ends, and there was the cupped ear. "Liquid jade," he mused, and was reconciled...
Left. By Col. William Boyce Thompson, Yonkers (N. Y.) philanthropist: $16,624,600 net. To the American Museum of Natural History, a famed jade & crystal collection; to Brother Joseph Edward Thompson, a $500,000 trust fund; to Mrs. Joseph E. Thompson, $100,000; to Relict Gertrude Hickman Thompson, $7,756,755 in trust and the $1,000,000 Yonkers house; to Daughter Margaret Hickman Schulz Biddle, a $5,756,555 trust fund. Birthdays. Dr. Henry Van Dyke, 80; Ida Minerva Tarbell, 75; Senator James Eli Watson of Indiana, 68; Leopold, Duke of Brabant, Belgium's heir, 31. Died. Frances...
...room the well-dressed crowd of dealers and socialites signalled their bids with the twitch of a pencil, the jerk of a head. For six days the sale went on: rapiers, helmets, cannon, snaphaunces (immediate ancestor of flintlock muskets), silver candlesticks, paintings, ivory carvings, gilded chairs, diamond brooches, jade-handled daggers, bottles of perfume, all the opulent impedimenta of one of the most amazing families...
...married, built a great rambling mid-Victorian palazzo at Riverdale-on-Hudson known as "Elmhurst." This he crammed from cellar to garret with costly knicknacks. There were gold plated bathtubs, tables of green malachite, huge bronze angels in the hall clutching armfuls of electric bulbs; paintings, tapestries, cabinets of jade and precious stones...
...burned up and sank at sea last May, August Messenger Thai Van Toan barely escaped with his life. Last week he had the satisfaction of seeing Emperor Bao Dai enthroned in the Palace of Supreme Peace. For hours & hours & hours His Majesty had to sit motionless, extending his white jade scepter while brigades of mandarins bowed in batches. According to Imperial Chinese etiquet, now observed exclusively at the Court of Annam, "no man's eyes may rest upon the Emperor enthroned, no woman may be in the Throne Room and the Emperor's eyes must dwell motionless upon utter vacancy...