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...night clubs, where she is toasted as Mayfair's wit and called the original of Michael Arlen's green-hatted lady. Visitors last winter in the Bahamas saw her parade the beach in pink bathing pajamas, and one night dance in the sand around a palm-shadowed driftwood blaze, a barefooted nymph of the tropics. Madonna, nun, nymph, notable, she is first and foremost a young lady in love with life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: In Chicago | 2/15/1926 | See Source »

...tribes live together in small villages along the coast, which are composed of houses, each shared by two families. The houses themselves are constructed of driftwood and are covered with a thick layer of turf to render them air-tight. The entrance to these houses is an underground tunnel about thirty feet in length, which finally emerges through the floor of the one room. The furniture consists of a sleeping bench about six feet wide running the length of one wall, and a few racks for hanging clothes. The only other things that could be called furniture are two soapstone...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Point Barrow Eskimos. | 10/27/1900 | See Source »

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