Word: exoticism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mrs. Weatherby, a portly widow with a sensuous passion for exotic religions, was flattered to receive them both one hot afternoon. Vain, she did not suspect that d'Astier came only to convert her wealth to the Church; and d'Orobelli to glean some gossip of Annie Spragg...
A year ago, Mitchell the Elder died. Nearly 7,000 shares of stock in the Illinois Merchants Trust went to his five children, together with the exotic, octagonal summer house at Lake Geneva, Wis., once the Ceylon exhibit at the Chicago fair, transplanted bodily by Banker Mitchell.
To this organization, Lucien Lelong brought an Oxford education, a vigorous personality. Most efficient of all couturiers, Lelong housed himself in a 9-story building, passing in Paris for a skyscraper, and proceeded to produce 1,000 models a year under 20th century working conditions. Lelong is popular with U...
With gleaming tusks, spotted skins, Africa lures the hunter. With savage tribes, brilliant plumage, exotic flowers, Africa calls to the explorer and the naturalist. But to the 20th century industrialist, eagerly scanning the world's wealth, the world's markets, Africa means first RAW MATERIALS, then CHEAP LABOR...
Each maker chooses some particular exotic ingredient to capture the imagination of the beauty-seeking public. Amor Skin is advertised as "a new scientific discovery to rejuvenate the skin." Originally, it included a substance extracted from the skin of very young iguana lizards. But as the demand grew, young iguana...