Word: coloniale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The figure of a great British Colonial Secretary, recently dipped in hot tea and then in scalding coffee, brooded, last week, over the lobby of the House of Commons. By tea and coffee this blatantly brand new statue of the late famed Joseph Chamberlain (1836-1911) had been toned down...
Colonial--"Sunny"--8 o'clock. Marilyn and Co.
¶ British Colonial Secretary L. C. M. S. Amery, called, "the most influential member of the British Cabinet," said last week:
¶Polygamy has been slowly dying out in Turkey for more than a century, because of the inability of modern Turkish husbands to support plural wives in the style and under the economic conditions of today. An analagous case is the decrease in the amount of food on Occidental tables...
The setting chosen should have offered Jorgulesco more inspiration than he seems to have derived, for the primary colors of a North African colonial scene are made to his lavish hand. But it is to be remarked that he seems to lack a flair for portraying the exoticism of the...