Word: lolo
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Szechwan's earthquake was mighty enough to rearrange the map of Szechwan. In the southern mountains, ancient home of the non-Chinese Lolo, Sifan and Miautse tribes, it opened a mile-long rent in a great mountain. The shaking mountains hurled the little Lolo citadels from their peaks into the valleys, like shot-putters at practice. They threw avalanches into the gorges of the tributary Yangtze rivers. For five hours Chiang's cherished line of last defense undulated and crumbled. It was a week before the first meager tidings trickled down the Yangtze to Nanking...
...antipathy of the two old women is inspired in part by Frau Grill's beauty. The Baroness has others to guard: children and a husband. Lolo, a daughter, swims beyond her strength to be rescued and kissed by lovely Frau Grill. The Baron, informed of this kiss, pays a call of thanks for the rescue, gets snubbed. Hilmar, Lolo's fiance, attaches himself to Frau Grill. It is too much. The two old women make the family leave...
...beautiful Frau Grill does very little but remember the days when she was wife of a hoary old ambassador. Then people like the Generalin and the Baroness rendered her kudos. Now she picks quarrels with the young artist who has dragged her out of that old life. Lolo's fiance appeals to her as Hans Grill ennobled. She does not believe with Hans that "no life, even the most ideal, is possible in which for some hours every day there is not a smell of potato-soup." A servant-girl's Utopia, that! Thus the love of wife and husband...