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...time Mrs. McLean rose to her zenith, the cave dwellers had retreated one by one to the hills, to ride to hounds over the Virginia and Maryland countryside, to gather at the Warrenton Hunt in their pink coats, or to sulk in their silken tents...
...years, the Dilowa Hutukhtu lived at Naribanchin, absolute ruler of 900 lamas, and lord of miles of farm and pasture lands. Dressed in silken robes of yellow and red, he spent his days in study and prayer. Only for the year's great festivals, such as the bemasked Devil Dance, did he vary his happy and quiet routine...
Beyond the city, it circles an archery meet, follows a fox and tiger hunt up into the blue hills, where the hunters have set up an overnight camp of silken pavilions, and winds down once more to the river where, in the evening cool, a farmer's family is having supper outdoors...
...Committee, he bolted his party in 1944 to be national chairman of the Independent Republicans for Roosevelt. He recently quit the Progressive Citizens of America when it went for Wallace. His service on the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry on Palestine turned him into an author (Behind the Silken Curtain); he is now an ardent advocate of partition. In moving to Manhattan, he will give up, among other things, the presidency of two radio stations owned by Ted and Dorothy Thackrey, owners of the New York Post...
...resistant to all progress, obstinately refusing any kind of change for the reason that all change was brought about by outsiders." Unlike the rest of Quebec City's picture-postcard prettiness, St. Sauveur is a wretched place: its proletarian "mulots" are ignorant and desperately poor, its bourgeois "soyeux" (silken ones) often bigoted and pretentious...