Word: exoticism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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In 296 boxes, 100,000 of the beeties are of a North American series. 50,000 are of the exotic type beetle, and remaining 100,000 belong to another North American group. Also included in the collection are a few thousand butterflies and moths.
Revealing of Wilde's character is Biographer Winwar's picture of the sun-flower-&-lily school he dramatized, the arch-esthete contemporaries he cultivated and admired-Painter Jimmie Whistler, who hammered home the theory that art has no morals and trained Wilde in the most cynical wit of...
It is rumored that the Hays office has of late been letting down the bars, and "My Little Chickadee" supplies evidence to bear out this contention. Very typical is the scene where Flower Belle puts an exotic goat in Guthbert J. Twillie's bed. "My dear," admonishes Fields, as he...
HAMLET certainly did have an uncle. And it is not Claudius (as he is called in that "perverted" form of Hamlet's story which is most familiar to us to whom Mr. Cabell refers. It is a certain Wiglerus who, in spite of his strange and somewhat comic name, turns...
Mention of the word party brings to Ouida Bergère's baby brown eyes a weird, predaceous glitter. Ouida Bergère (nee Ida Berger) is chubby, red-headed Mrs. Basil Rathbone. Once something of a scriptress, for seven years she was head of Paramount's scenario...