Word: exoticism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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An exotic personality that bloomed in Boston's chill. (P. 17.)
Once owned by the eldest daughter of Elihu Yale (supposed founder of the University), four old English tapestries were sold at Sotheby's (London) for ?6,800. The designs are of Indo-Chinese character with innumerable buildings, trees, exotic birds, all on black backgrounds. They belong to a well...
Quite as much as for her Art treasures was "Mrs. Jack" famed for her eccentricities. In the conventional chill of Boston weather, her exotic personality bloomed.
She was, in toto, a fascinating, daring, exotic personage, never pretty, always "smart," a 16th Century Venetian nail in the hub of just-yesterday.
CREOLE SKETCHES-Lafcadio Hearn- Houghton ($2.00). In this collection of early notes about New Orleans, lovely, sleepy "City of Dreams," are frequent bits of that exquisite phrasing and wayward charm for which Hearn was later famed. The sketches appeared in The New Orleans Item when the unkempt, erratic and friendless...