Word: exoticism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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"Sacred Whisker." Charles I of England had his head chopped off in 1649. Some one pulled a whisker from the chin. That whisker became a "sacred" symbol to be venerated by Anglo-Catholics when they celebrated "King Charles the Martyr's Day," Jan. 30. At this veneration the Churchman, upright...
SINCE the days of E. Rider Haggard's orientally imaginative novels, weird, mystical, and scented with the unfathomable agelessness of Asia, there has appeared scarcely another novelist whose taste for the exotic mystery of much infinities has carven a readable story. Quite in this older, manner Mr. Merritt has harked...
At the left of the curtains waited a middle-aged man in a cutaway coat. He kept pulling out his handkerchief and putting it back again; he fidgeted with his necktie. Clearly he too felt the suspense of this taut interval, this moment so charged with imminent revelations. What mystery...
FOR LOVE OF THE KING?Oscar Wilde?Putman ($1.50). Oscar O' Flahertie Wills Wilde once meditated writing a novel "as beautiful and as intricate as a Persian praying rug." He would spend hours at the Middle Temple and in a punt on the Thames absorbing atmosphere from a certain distinguished...
Now when a woman takes to horses after adolescence and then chiefly for show, there is some truth in the opinion of the British mooter of the subject,* because her thigh muscles may not have been adequately strengthened in girlhood. But for the girl taught to ride astride from childhood...