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...dollar shortage, they said, had penetrated even into their forbidden city of Lhasa, which badly needs plows and sickles. To get them, Tibet wants to send the U.S. a list of oddities (e.g., lapis lazuli, musk, leopard skins) topped by 100,000 yak* tails. It happens that the U.S. is now suffering from a war-born shortage of yak tails, which can't be beat for making wigs and Santa Claus beards. U.S. wigmakers will probably grab them up fast...
...goggle-eyed followers he told still more: about the subterranean Great White Lodge, 75 miles beneath the Forbidden City of Lhasa and reached by a "gravity-neutralizing" elevator, where a twelve-man Supreme Council met in a white-metal hall to plan world strategy. "Archbishop" Doreal assured brotherhood members that he kept in constant touch with the council by sending his soul back to Tibet by "astral projection...
McGovern is apt to explain Kant in terms of Buicks and boogie-woogie, and fall back frequently on McGovern reminiscences. These include boyhood in Brooklyn, a spell in the English theater, a junket to Tibet's Forbidden City of Lhasa, and his days as a Buddhist monk in Japan. He can also spin yarns about his explorations of Peru's Inca ruins and Formosa's head-hunting country. McGovern is a sound scholar withal, master of twelve languages, author of a Manual of Buddhist Philosophy, and From Luther to Hitler. He was one of the boys...
These were the favorites; but the next Dictator of Russia might be as unknown at present as the next Dalai Lama of Lhasa...
Mean Man. Turner's gaunt face and his high dome give him the look of a parson. On leave before the war, he used to live with his wife and his Lhasa terriers at their comfortable Carmel, Calif, home, playing golf, fishing, talking incessantly, growing roses, reading Conrad through gold-rimmed spectacles and dreaming of the day when he would retire and take a round-the-world cruise aboard a freighter. To his colleagues (who know how to use monosyllables respectfully) he is known as "a mean son-of-a-bitch...