Word: exoticism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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History. Mrs. Margaret Sanger* invented the phrase "birth control" in her The Woman Rebel (1914). But Mrs. Annie Besant, who has since abandoned the social rebelling of her young matronhood for theosophy and the patronage of Jiddu Krishnamurti (TIME, July 12, 1926), really started this purely modern movement. That was...
It takes Mann many pages to describe the three weeks stay. During that time an immense change comes over Hans Pastoy, a change that is gradual, from within, organic. He falls into the life of the sanatorium. He notices that in this place of absolute relaxation the hours are empty...
Brian Oswald Dorm-Byrne, the storyteller, has now done* what it has long seemed he might do-put aside his sentimental inclination and surrendered himself completely to the language of the Bible, to the epic fever of the century that produced the last great religion. The fighting man in him...
FLOWER PHANTOMS-Ronald Fraser-Boni & Liveright ($2.00). Delicate, sensuous Judy made her lover liken her to the loveliest flowers, exotic ones with iridescent stems and golden caps rather than the sturdy blossoms of the fields. She drank in his literary phrases as the plants in her hothouse drank the warm...
And exotic hours will keep: