Word: exoticism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Exotic Resolutions. Markos, since proclaiming himself Premier of the "Provisional Democratic Government of Greece" last Christmas Eve, has not only been issuing conscription orders but otherwise acting like a government. Around him he has a "cabinet" of twelve men. Slight, dark Petros Roussos is Minister of Foreign Affairs; short, bespectacled...
But here too, suddenly, "like an exotic quilt thrown over a slept-in bed," summer covers the cemetery of the mammoth and the woolly rhinoceros with plaids of buttercups, poppies and bluebells. Millions of birds and clouds of mosquitoes take to the air; and the warmed glaciers, calving with "that...
The strippers hastened to explain that they didn't peel any more. They just did "exotic numbers," "bacchanales" or "veil dances." But it looked much like the public disrobing of old, although not quite as thorough. One night, when the cops warned Stripper Georgia Sothern to watch her bumps...
Along with the jumbo, they talked of the surrounding dark-panelled walls and the many-colored candle-holders; and soon the O.G. was known round the world. Patrons would swear it outdated Harvard Hall and few were doubted; but actually the Grille hit the Square in 1939, moving up from...
In Columbia, S.C., after a three-year study, the National Malaria Society's Journal reported some cheering statistics. Aboard some 28,000 planes entering the U.S. annually from malaria-infested areas were "several thousand" mosquito stowaways. But only 11% wriggled through the rigid quarantine curtain and arrived alive at...