Word: orientation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the identity of the royal party still a close secret, His Majesty boarded the Orient Express for the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. Clear across France the train's route was guarded by French soldiers standing within sight of each other along the roadbed...
...spot markets scattered throughout the cotton belt the morning's desultory dickering petered out. In Britain the Liverpool Cotton Market had closed for the day, but traders would get the U. S. cotton news after the races and the cricket matches. In Bombay, Shanghai, Osaka the Orient's cotton men roused themselves from bed or stirred impatiently in club chairs. In Egypt, where the world's finest cotton is grown on the banks of the Nile, the cotton men of Alexandria waited dinner...
...vampire? To some of these questions the reader can soon supply the answer. Ordino's club was a blind for selling drugs. Ordino was in cahoots with Lady Judith and Sir Gregory, whose yacht-cruises were not innocent pleasure trips but drug-buying expeditions to the Orient. This nefarious trade paid the three partners so well that they were thinking of retiring after a few more hauls. Then Scotland Yard began to close in on them. But the criminals might have escaped the Law had not that evil-eyed individual in a mackintosh taken a blasphemous fancy to Lady...
...alumni, who felt that no one could cherish Good Old Yale but a Good Old Yaleman, were stricken with grief and shame. Few had the perspicacity to divine that now if ever was the time Yale needed the unemotional guidance of a man who, like a foreigner in the Orient, would not be judged too severely for short-cutting an unwieldy mass of custom and precedent. An Angell might march boldly in where an alumnus President would timidly fear to tread...
Significantly, President Angell recalls more vividly than any other period of his life the year, when he was 11, spent with his parents in Peiping. President Hayes had made his father Minister to China. The sights and sounds of the legation compound, the stillness of the Orient under snow, the pony the British Minister gave him, the hard-packed clay roads in summer, the incredible remoteness of the place and the kindliness and decorum of the Chinese are memories which return to President Angell with infinitely more clarity than the last meeting of the Yale Corporation...