Air suits me, she had remarked, for she had bought two pairs of black vorlages and matched them with a series of thick sweaters in black and orange patterns and an orange snood.

After several years of operations, The Wheel was closed in 1918 amid public displeasure. In the Shanghai French Concession, there were also several popular gambling houses including the Great World (大世界) and Xi Jia Du Chang (席家赌场).

Except for an eye-catching sky-blue container boldly and attractively featuring the B.T.C.'s door-to-door arrow symbol …, there were no outlandish colour schemes or lettering styles.

When the soul breaks free from the arms of a superstition, bits of the claws and talons break themselves off in him. It is not the work of a day to squeeze them out.