Word: salome
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...talkative peddler caused all the trouble when he told Salom, the Chinese youth just coming to manhood, about Tibet's "Valley of the Dreaming Phoenix." "Who lives there? Only nomads, my son. And peace. And happiness...
...Young Salom's questions about the valley were tempered with a hard-earned skepticism. He knew Tibet; his father had been killed there. But the persistent peddler's picture of the fabulous valley, "a place where you can belong," made him decide...
Four hard months later, Salom crossed the final range and got his first glimpse of the Valley of the Dreaming Phoenix. Picturesquely, it was all that the old peddler had said it would be, an awesome "spreading bowl of light and color." But peace and happiness were not so evident, and before the brief summer was out, Salom had learned from the valley's dozen herdsmen families a universal truth: jealousy, betrayal and moral corruption haunt even the most isolated...
...back to myself. Everybody knows that I havent sold any whiskey in 8 years and on turning the first page of the 1943 calendar me & my wife went into a huddle and I made myself some very salom promises. She don't take very much stock in these new year reselutions but I promased myself that I would quit lying and stealing and I have kept that promos. I also promased to quit drinking, while I reserve the right to take a social drink with a friend that promas too I have kept inviolate and I will farther promise...
...Time--Four 12 minute periods. HARVARD DARTMOUTH Williams, g. g., Haley Brodley, r.f. r.f., Bagg Sheridan, l.f. l.f., MacDonald Brown, r.h. r.h., Hess Lewis, c.h. (Jacobson) c.h., Treadway Phillips, l.h. l.h., seeley Witkin, r.o. (Macneil) r.o., Balley Roosevelt, r.i. r.i., Daley Johanson, c. c., Britton Hammond, l.i. (Johnson) l.i., Salom Sinnott, l.o. (Manning) l.o. Ward...