Word: lotuses
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...jasper scarab with the inscription: "Do not betray me, O heart, on the day of judgment." Beside him, to aid him on his journey, were jeweled or golden images of his gods, and golden dishes, beautifully wrought. One dish showed a bas-relief of women swimming through lotus flowers...
Rice-eating Southerners, the slim, shrewd sophisticates of Chekiang and Fukien, would go back to their poems, books and lotus seeds. Canton's markets and midnight snackeries would be abuzz again. The Hangchow people would see their lovely lakes. The Soochow girls would croon their languid songs...
...porcelains, the literary achievements, the mature wisdom, the basic goodness and friendliness of the people. They wanted to live their lives happily there, so they looked for and found the best. They learned what the Chinese have long known, that the loveliest flower of all, the lotus, frequently grows in the most uninviting surroundings...
...Love (by Edward Caulfield; produced by Arthur Beckhard & Victor Hugo-Vidal) concerns a lady scientist and a well-known actor (Lotus Robb and Walter Hampden) who meet through a marriage bureau, hide their identities, spend a trial fortnight in Connecticut...
...held South Pacific island. Having been pushed around for years in the U.S., Sam is cynical and rancorous, indifferent to who wins the war, delighted that, because of his dark skin, he can pose as a native. He finds a pretty Negro missionary girl and becomes a contented lotus-eater...