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Soon after his arrival in the capital, Kuntze demonstrated his logistical prow ess by requisitioning Jannie Suen, a sinuous Chinese miss who was 19 years his junior. The Saigon siren and the Wisconsin salt, who was divorced be fore going to Viet Nam, merrily made the rounds of the diplomatic circuit, threw their own swinging rumpuses in Kuntze's quasi embassy at No. 74 Hong Thap Tu, Vietnamese for Red Cross Street...
sardana begins and a shadowy Lucifer upon a prow descends the Thames, the Seine...
...staff of geniuses-men like T. E. Lawrence, Colonel Richard Meinertzhagen, Lieut. Colonel Archibald Wavell. Allenby offered these men responsibilities that few other generals of the age dared to delegate, but at the same time he dominated the scene with what Lawrence described as "a mind like the prow of the Mauretania-there is so much weight behind it that it does not need to be sharp...
...comforting but humdrum virtues of a tidy housewife. Her prose reflects this dichotomy, ranging from the limpest of cliches to flights of intuitive perception, as in her lines about Sylvia Townsend Warner: "Yet all is not wit, though it springs out from her as pointed as a prow. There is wisdom, as final as a proverb...
...fisherman breaks with the small prow of his boat...