Word: bali
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...painful dilemma of 1937, Britain's Cabinet last week announced that the House of Commons will be asked to vote ?5,000 ($25,000) to "Snatch." Fully convalescent. Sir Hughe Montgomery Knatchbull-Hugessen left Shanghai for a holiday to be spent in such South Sea pleasure spots as Bali...
...well-preserved, attentive woman who said politely that she had heard he was rich and successful. They exchanged formal comments about their careers, and the self-conscious traveler, feeling a little ridiculous and more concerned than ever about the prestige of the white race, hurried on to visit Java, Bali, Sumatra, Macassar, and other island haunts with the passionate absorption of a middle-aged romantic who had set out in quest of his youth, found it and decided it had not amounted to much...
...BALI AND ANGKOR-Geoffrey Gorer- Little, Brown...
...Bali and Angkor Author Gorer's forthright denunciations of some of the abuses of Far Eastern Imperialism make spirited reading. But his latent mysticism, barely called into being in Africa, flowered under the influence of the gentle Balinese, the witches of Java, the monstrous ruins of Angkor Wat. Hence the book is less one of description of far places than an exposition of the author's theories of the nature of the mystical experience, its social and spiritual significance...
Geoffrey Gorer expected to find Bali ballyhooed to the point of tedium. Instead it turned out to be so fresh and attractive that he was convinced that he had seen the nearest approach to Utopia on earth. Java for the most part left him cold, as did Sumatra and Siam. He says that "never having been to California," Bangkok is the most hokum place he has ever seen...