Word: exoticism
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All the early marks were of a kind to turn the mind of a boy to romantic poetry -the rare sound of a horse's hoofs clopping past his father's lonely farm at night, the screaming, exotic peacocks at the neighboring manor house, the 1,200-year...
For months, Scotland Yard's sleuths followed a shimmering trail of 1,600 butterflies that led from Australia to England. They were stolen from three Australian museums, and much of the thief's bag of exotic loot was irreplaceable. Among the missing butterflies were specimens rare beyond price...
"Bantam Barnum." Billy Rose's skyrocket career as a showman began with a miserable fizzle called Corned Beef & Roses. Desperately, he rewrote it, renamed it Sweet & Low. Though it had Fanny Brice in some of the original Baby Snooks routines (which Billy wrote), it thudded again. Billy rewrote the...
Marrying Season. Until last fall, when the U.S. chargé d'affaires in India visited Nepal for the purpose of decorating the Maharaja with the Legion of. Merit, only a handful of Americans had ever visited the country. But last fortnight the doings of the exotic Americans competed as...
As the harvest continued at Grasse this week, the prospects of the French perfume trade were not as pretty as the blossoms. Of the many ingredients required to make men sniff with interest, the fields of Grasse produce only a few, and not enough of those. Citronella, civet, vetivert, santalol...