Word: east
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...culminating imbecility, that they did not all with one accord turn on us [white men] with hoots of derision, with mocking and murderous violence. . . . The share of Hollywood in low ering the white man's prestige is by no means inconsiderable. ... To the subject races of the East and South, Hollywood proclaims us a people . . . mentally defective...
Utterly out of the rut of "travel books"are two volumes, respectively about the Far East* and the Far North.** Aldous Huxley, a goggled-eyed aesthetic master at turning trifles into significant facts, sets forth the searing paradoxes which he constructed on a trip around the world featuring the Orient but including (and devastating) the U. S. The Scandinavian wanderers have caught uniquely well the healthy rural glow, the astounding civic progress and the insufferably"countrified" social life of Scandinavian...
...GENESIS OF THE WORLD WAR - H. E. Barnes-Knopf ($4.00). 7 THE CHANGING EAST - J. A. Spender - Stokes ($3.00). 8 AN OUTLINE HISTORY OF CHINA - Herbert H. Gowen and Josef Washington Hall -Appleton ($4.00). 9 India- Sir Valentine Chirol - Scribner's ($3.00). 10 Asia - Herbert H. Gowen - Little, Brown ($3.50). 11 THE WHISPERING GALLERY - "An Ex-Diplomat" - Boni & Liveright ($3.00). John Lane, The Bodley Head, Ltd., the London publishers, have withdrawn the book and caused the arrest on a charge of fraud of one Hesketh Pearson who sold them the manuscript and assured them that...
...royal yacht, Osborne. I spanned the English Channel by wireless that year; extended the range up to 74 miles for messages between battleships; was ready with equipment for use in the Boer War. In 1899 the first wireless S.O.S. message was sent to shore, with direct effect, from the East Goodwin lightship, which was rammed...
...Rock Creek, a tributary of the Kern River, which itself finally reaches the San Joaquin valley at Bakersfield. Emerging into the pass, we came out on a broad granite plateau sloping gently west, an abrupt change from the tremendous cliffs skirted by the trail coming up from the east, and soon descended to first water and timber line, following Rock Creek down to 9,500 feet, three miles above its final plunge into the tremendous canyon of the Kern. The rocky trail led through forests of lodge-pole pines, over rocky spurs and boulders, and through occasional lovely glades...