Word: exoticism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Now, many of the market's 100-odd companies have elaborate cold-storage vaults, and some have ice-making machinery. Fish are cleaned with such gadgets as automatic washing vats and electric-powered scale removers. For processing fish for hotels and other big customers, one company has built big...
Professor Clarence H. Haring has left his post as Master of Dunster House. He was a popular master, and he worked conscientiously at a job which, if occasional reports coming out of the exotic wilds of Dunster House are true, was far from easy. And he brought more than this...
Satira's old Chicago nightclub boss gleefully announced plans for "big bookings in New York." A competitor offered to put Satira on a double bill with Mee's widow, another "exotic dancer." Said Widow Mee: "I don't have any hard feeling for that girl, but after...
After their 1914 wedding in Hoboken, N.J., Billie discovered that Ziegfeld wore long, silk, peach-colored underwear, which she quickly threw away. But life went on being brightly colored. Ziegfeld liked to tear off to Palm Beach to play roulette. He won or lost $50,000 at a sitting, would...
Kernel of Greatness. Today, at 64, Flaherty reaps the rewards of a pioneer who has never stopped pioneering. Before Nanook, factual films were mostly travelogues-patronizing glimpses of exotic peoples in far-off places. Flaherty concentrated on the struggles of man against his environment. Because of his choice of settings...