Word: exoticism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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"One hundred African lions, 40 Bengal tigers, 20 leopards, 100 pumas, 150 black bears, 1,000 buffaloes, 500 elk, 500 deer, 400 wild boars, 400 peccaries, 40,000 ringneck pheasants, 10,-000 Hungarian partridges, 5,000 bobwhite quail, 400 wild turkeys, 400 wild peafowl, 400 wild guinea-fowl"-it was...
Professor H. W. Holmes, Dean of the Graduate School of Education, speaking Friday before the Vassar Alumnae of New England, declared: "Collegiate education should be education, not mere instruction." Purporting to escape the limitations of mere instruction, the tutorial system was established at Harvard. It has not been entirely successful...
There were two compensations for lovers of brilliance and movement. First, the costumes: Anne Roselle, as Tosca, for instance, appeared in the first act in a chrome orange satin skirt and bodice, a purple velvet jacket and hat, a bunch of crimson roses tied with baby-blue ribbon. Second, the...
Konrad Bercovici is one of these walrus-mustached foreigners who give a touch of the exotic to the reaches of the Hotel Algonquin, Manhattan. Two new books of his are on the autumn lists?Around the World in New York and lliana, a collection of gypsy stories. His play, Costa...
The island is said to harbor amphibians "of new and strange habits," species of insects "never described," 2,000 species of "strange and exotic" plants. Moreover, it "abounds" in anteaters, sloths, armadillos, peccaries, tapirs, agoutis, coatis, ocelots, jaguars, several kinds of bat monkeys and "black howlers."