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Wang the farmer now becomes the patrician head of the House of Lung. He returns to the country. He buys the Great House. He cuts off his queue in the western fashion. He dons silk. He forgets the land in his passion for Lotus (Tilly Losch), a sing-song girl whom he makes his second wife. To her he gives 0-lan's two pearls...
...proposition, including: Princeton, Yale, Dartmouth, Columbia, Navy, and Penn. Although the team will take water against several other colleges, it is within the sacred ranks of this League that all attention will be centered; and the League Championship which will necessarily include an Eli scalp, is the Lotus Isle toward which these mermen will be swimming all season...
...figures are seven feet tall, the others lifesize. A petitioner, slightly bowed, holds his hand to his mouth "in a gesture of respect and appeal." One of the court officials appears to be a Food Taster, as he holds a napkin. The monarch and his son grasp twin-budded lotus blossoms, symbols of royalty. Their shoes are like those of present-day Iranians...
Nordica's funeral was in King's Weigh House Chapel in London where she and George Young were married. Her casket was a teakwood trunk, carved to represent a lotus, the flower that she loved best. On his return to Manhattan, George Young walked down the gangplank bearing a box under either arm. One contained Lillian Nordica's jewels, the other her ashes...
...Garden of Ten Thousand Trees and a waterfall that gave the illusion of flowing over jade and breaking into a spray of pearls. The Emperor and his court hunted deer and boar in the rolling hills of its great park while the imperial ladies went boating on its lotus-covered lakes in barges. When the great Kang Hsi, sometimes rated above his contemporaries Louis XIV and Peter the Great, built it and moved in for the summer, the road from Peking was crowded. Wagons bringing supplies to the Palace flew little yellow flags. Only the Emperor...