Word: exoticism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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TAMPICO-Joseph Hergesheimer -Knopf ($2.50). To a forest of oil wells, peopled by Mexican bandits, derelict Yankees, greasy drillers, dollar-brained exploiters and always, always, their perfumes clinging, their bodies twining and hinting as only a close observer of exotic flesh could make them twine and hint, women of extreme...
A few loyal Times readers, after reading this statement, took out their pencils and did a bit of arithmetic. The New York Times, they decided, must make from daily sales a gross income of $1,500,000 a year, in addition to its Sabbath income of $30,000 a week...
"Abyssinians." While Prince Taffari protested 10,000,000 Abyssinians continued an indolent existence upon 350,000 square miles of territory, mostly fertile, very largely held in feudal tenure by innumerable rases (princes), subservant to the Empress. The term "Abyssinian," corrupted from the Arabic Habesh ("mixed," "mongrel") well describes this people...
Nevertheless, two perfectly normal gentlemen, seldom known to do the exotic, started off last week on a Southern automobile trip. One was Speaker Nicholas Longworth, big-chested, blushing, back-slapping Republican leader of the House, natty Presidential hopeful. His gasoline buddy was C. Bascom Slemp, of Virginia, "gleaner and harvester...
The Dominus Apostolicus, according to Signor d' Annunzio, finds his palate so agreeably titillated by "cherry elixir" that plans are going forward to erect a "monastery" near D' Annunzio's exotic home on Lago di Garda (TIME, July 5), in which this rare tipple may be produced...