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...Herter-Edwards conversation was interrupted by an ominous silence and then a silken rustling between the customs men. They were pulling out of one Herter trunk an astonishing quantity of flowered cerise silk, lined with baby blue. The material eventually resolved itself into a gentleman's dressing gown of prodigious proportions, a dressing gown from Paris to fit only such a monster figure as that of William Hanford ("Big Bill") Edwards. This article, which was a present for Mr. Edwards, was nowhere mentioned in the Herter's declaration...
...least half a millennium no one has thought of Chinamen or Chinawomen as pioneers. They have chosen not the virile and womanly covered wagon, but the sendentary and exquisite silken robe. Today China has only one Daniel Boone -the great Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang. Last week he lectured Chinafolk severely for their timid sit-by-the-hearthishness and failure to pioneer. "Is it any wonder," he roared, "that we are laughed at by imperialist countries, who treat us contemptuously, as though we were their little grandsons? They do not even esteem us as much as their cats and dogs...
...frequently baffled by their first contact with a world full of strange new opportunities, fall victim to the lure of whatever package has the prettiest wrapper. Two seasons usually suffice to prove to these newcomers that the contents of the carton seldom justifies the effort spent in untying the silken ribbons, but these two seasons often leave ineradicable traces on the health and dean's office standing of the seeker after truth...
...found the same slender, abstemious, almost frail Chiang Kai-shek of old. As Marshal and Generalissimo of all the Nationalist Armies his uniform was always that of a private, completely unadorned. Last week as President of the Government he received callers in austerest garb, after doffing his plain, dark, silken robe of office. Coldly, firmly...
Claudia Particella, whose father was the Cardinal's counsellor, had retired to Castle Toblino, guarded and defended by a group of ruffians in whom the Cardinal placed the utmost confidence. . . . "Beneath her silken robe was visible the provocative outline of her body. . . . Her half-closed eyes understood the sorcery of poisonous passion...