Word: silken
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the suave blandness of these silken days...
...cruiser Hai Chi ("Flag of the Sea") earned in 1911 the distinction of being the first Chinese war boat ever to visit the West when she steamed as near as possible to the Coronation of King George V, discharged a cargo of Chinese emissaries in gorgeous silken robes. Built in 1897 the Hai Chi and the equally venerable Hai Shen ("Pearl of the Sea") were still listed last week as the only cruisers in China's Northeastern Squadron. When some weeks ago their commanders, quarreled with sedentary Admiral Shen Hung-lieh, Mayor of Tsingtao, he could do nothing...
Carefully concealed for the past few years, the red ace up China's silken sleeve is Bolshevism. Last week China's reaction to the League of Nations' failure so far to help her against Japan was to make a motion toward her trump. Only the merest motion, for the Chinese gentlemen who compose the present government are astuteness itself. They let big, round-face Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovitch Litvinov announce with unction at Geneva last week that Russia, the world's largest nation, and China, the world's most populous nation, have resumed the diplomatic relations which China broke...
...doubts on that score. Of course, the Vagabond wandered a bit confusedly through Gothic Yale Saturday, of course he drank cocktails with very smooth Elis, but, unexpectedly, he met Radcliffe after the game in a Harkness study. She was drying her shoes before the fire, and as she wriggled silken toes all was confessed. Not ships and sealing-wax were the topics of conversation, not the game, for Radcliffe felt very bad on that point (she had been there with a Yale man) but Harvard men themselves were dissected and improved. What she said will best be left unrepeated. Harvard...
...Vagabond has a great sense of what he missed in not being born in the Middle Ages missed-but that is a detail. The Vagabond's heart longs for the sight of glistening helmets and of faire ladyes beneath silken canopies, for the savor of oxen roasted whole in the castle hall, for the hilarious joy of skating with all London on the frozen Thames. But most of all his heart longs for the sight of a Friar Tuck downing his ale in a country tavern...