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...philosophical businessmen of Peiping, who pad their wages with commissions from shopkeepers to whom they wheel their riders; the noisy hagglers of Shanghai, whose existence is the meanest. Everywhere their shuffling straw sandals, klaxon cries and stained sweatbands are as ineluctably a part of China as temple gongs, a plum tree beside a bridge, or the marble Temple of Heaven...
...watch. Neighbors brought him rice and vegetables, and local rajahs sent him gifts of beef and pork. Unmolested by the Japs, Meier painted 150 canvases. On the side he grew tobacco, which one of his wives rolled into miniature cigars. He also made rice wine and a fiery plum cordial he called "swisky-the drink of Swiss mountain sailors...
...longer would girls be sold to the whoremasters by impoverished parents and be bound to work until they could buy their way out with a niggardly share of their earnings. (Sales by husbands and sweethearts were banned in 1940.) Henceforth "Double-Blossomed Plum" and her many sisters would be in business for themselves. General MacArthur got full credit from the girls. "He's almost doubled my earning power," confided...
White House mail piled higher & higher. The larder bulged with Christmas gifts of plum pudding, wild turkey, venison, duck, pheasant and guinea hen. Tinseled wreaths filled the White House windows with color. Outside, the national Christmas tree towered over the frozen south lawn...
...Sugar Plum Fairy danced to a set of camel bells, the Arabs to an accompaniment of carefully modulated burps. Tchaikovsky's flutes, piccolos and muted strings were drowned out by washboards, police sirens, breaking glass...