... and, within a day of his arrival, had struck up an incongruous friendship with the abbots and monks of the Buddhist lamasery that squatted on the ...
... neck o' the woods! You are the honorable amban-entitled to I don't know how many kowtows and how much graft! Indeed, Mr. Crane. And you ...
... cross all Russia and half of Asia, these days, simply to swap theological lies with some old yellow-capped priests! I tell you-and I needn't tell you, ...
... why I say it's up to you to do something, said Crane, to assert yourself, to grease your big stick! Big stick? You know what I mean. ...
... endings-here, in Urga, at the very back of the beyond. Michael Crane had been a brilliant young lawyer and politician in his native city, Chicago, ...
... but he turned the trick. Sure, another bigwig had replied, but-you know-well- Yes, yes. The first speaker had left his seat and had ...
... as secretary to several Chinese legations and embassies, had tried to stimulate his brain with opium-until, one day, perhaps giving way to an atavistic ...
... it when the priests had settled the argument among themselves-after which, he would report to the ministry of the outer provinces in Peking that everything ...
... wheels. And then there was peace once more, the bottle for Crane, and the amber-colored poppy juice for Tzu Po-until, overnight it seemed, out of ...
... the thin-lipped yellow caps in the old lamasery whispering, whispering-and Tengso Punlup, the chief abbot, was on his deathbed-and it was gossiped ...
... and camel men, the fur and salt traders, the peasants, hunters, trappers, and fishermen-they did not matter. They were just the incoherent, unthinking, ...
... time, prepared supper, and set out a bottle and glasses and some of the treasured home papers and magazines which he received with each mail, once every ...
... the cause of the Central Powers as much as they thought about such a remote matter at all. And right here, the mysterious, suave, immaculate ...
... some vague reason, which he could not quite decipher, it was important for the cause of America and her allies, whom he represented, that the yellow ...
... through the gathering night, and he pushed on, as fast as he could, through the crowds of priests, yellow caps and red caps, that were becoming ...
... on. Then, quite suddenly, the whirling limbs separated, the mass pushed on more hurriedly, more hectically than before, as, from the square ...
... moment, the mad thought came to him to put himself squarely beneath this gate, to defend it against the yellow caps as a picked regiment, fighting a ...
... of a yellow-cap abbot would mean another German victory, he found himself helpless-and the thought, the knowledge was as bitter as gall. ...
... that a priest may neither touch it nor step over it, and that the spot where the deed has been done must be made clean with many and lengthy ceremonies ...
... der Vorurteilsforschung is a sociology book written by German sociologist, ethnologist, and sexologist Gisela Bleibtreu-Ehrenberg that was first ...