Word: muleback
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...Prince its first nettoyage à sec. After the predictable number of mangled sleeves and missing buttons, Jimmy's crew of five began to get the hang of dry-cleaning. The tele jiol (Creole for word-of-mouth telegraph) advertised his service, and bundles of clothes poured in on muleback and in baskets on peasant women's heads. Jimmy expanded his plant, opened a laundry (the Blanchisserie Jimmy). Today his business is worth...
...film. It is all merely true." But, in its unrelieved gloom and its total sociological despair, The Young and the Damned sometimes seems as one-dimensional and as far short of the truth as a lurid propaganda poster. Typical sequence: the body of a murdered boy being carted on muleback to a public garbage dump while his mother unknowingly passes...
Lazaro began his business career as a bank accountant, earned enough money before the turn of the century to strike out on his own. On muleback, aboard stagecoaches and on asthmatic trains, he combed Spain for art works that dealers had overlooked. His profits enabled him to broaden his operations, which eventually included all of Europe and the Americas. Lazaro was one of the first to go to Russia after World War I, came back with trunkloads of masterpieces. "Those Reds," he exulted, "don't even know the difference between a Rembrandt and a colored calendar...
...Thomases had a fairly uneventful trip on their muleback way from India to Lhasa, but in Lhasa things got more exciting. They had the rare enough distinction of being presented to the Dalai Lama, and while the spiritual head of millions of Lamaistic Buddhists had very little to say, the travelers had a good chance to talk with some of his advisers...
Frye travelled through Southern Persia on muleback, going on hunch and making inquires all the way. Droughts and blinding dust storms slowed his passage...