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...strung them upon my red silk dress...
...soft, enfolding silk...
...fever, saying nothing about it, when the weather cleared and Soviet rescue planes got through. They were flown by Pilots Molokov, Slepnev and Kamanin. The professor loaded his weakest villagers aboard. Molokov could squeeze only three men in his cabin, but he had an idea. He got out his silk parachutes, laid two men on the ice. He swaddled them in all the clothes they had, then in the parachutes, wrapping them like Indian papooses. He laid out one on each under wing of his biplane, lashed them securely, flew his load of five 100 mi. across the white waste...
Directly charged with guarding the President's life are Richard Jervis. chief of the White House detail, and Col. Edward W. Starling. They, and most other Secret Service operatives, were chosen be cause they do not resemble detectives, can wear morning coats and silk hats without looking like politicians in a St. Patrick's Day parade. It will be noticed that when they are photographed with the President they never look at the camera, always at the crowd, with their hands folded across their chests, one gripping the butt of a revolver inside the coat over the heart...
...sprawling, verandahed, one-story buildings built around open courtyards and roofed with tile of imperial yellow. The entrance was two great sheets of plate glass blazing in red with the character "Sho" (Longevity). The floors were marble, the movable partitions elaborately carved open woodwork, broken with old paintings on silk, panels and mirrors. Known as Pi-shu-shan-chwang (mountain lodge for avoiding the heat), it was famed for The Garden of Ten Thousand Trees and a waterfall that gave the illusion of flowing over jade and breaking into a spray of pearls. The Emperor and his court hunted deer...