Word: jewells
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Saturn and Venus, left them glowing balefully red. To some yellow-robed Buddhist monks conducting sombre ritual in Peiping's ancient, dilapidated Lama Temple, the eclipse was an ominous portent. They twirled their prayer-wheels uneasily, muttering the potent Buddhist charm: Om mani padme hum ("Hail to the jewel in the lotus flower"). Three nights before, some 1,000 miles to the southwest of Peiping, the great Dalai Lama, Venerable Ocean Treasure and Jewel of Majesty, had gone to his Nirvana, aged 60, in the Potala, his massive fortress-palace in Lhasa high on the bleak plateau of Tibet...
...analysis of his mental processes. He has a beautiful collection of unused chessmen; sundry gargoyles stare out from his walls; there is a mug used at Nicky's coronation; framed on the wall hang a pair of European Court Fans; on a window seat, in the sun, sparkles a jewel handled Moorish Scimitar; and over there, in a glass case, is a death mask of Oliver Cromwell, Upstairs are the proud portraits of Cromwell and the collection of tools. In some dark closet hangs the Frock Coat, which the Professor will don each Sunday teatime...
...Arsene Lupin" when it appeared two years ago was one of the first movies in which two male stars appeared together. John and Lionel Barrymore in one of their best performances are pitted against each other as the gentleman jewel robber, Arsene Lupin, and the chief of the Paris detective forces. Lupin's crowning coup is the theft of the Mona Lisa from the Louvre. Lionel, frustrated time and again, snorts, stamps, and raves superbly...
...there are million grains of earth. In the calm of night, thought flows effortlessly like a great river, and embraces the whole world. The clamor and confusion of day are swept from the brain and a single eye comprehends the essence of all things. The imagination plays in a jewel-box ideas...
...being nobbled again. Which is why Lord Tilbury is seized by his beefy scruff and thrust into a dark and dirty shed. And why young Monty Bodkin, his discharged subeditor, regains employment with His Lordship. And why, since the ms. of the racy reminiscences is the other jewel of the plot, the Empress ultimately makes a meal of said ms. and, one complication having thus consumed another, the agreeable young people involved (the other young man is Ronnie Fish; the girls, "good old" Gertrude Butterwick and Sue Brown) are free to marry and the reader's ribs to recuperate...