Word: exoticism
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Author Vandercook plays a detectifiction con-game against an exotic background. A lover of tropic islands (he has visited and written about Haiti, Trinidad, the South Seas), last year he spent three months on Viti Levu, largest of the Fiji Islands. He gives a first-hand picture of its gigantic...
Colonel & Mrs. Charles Augustus Lindbergh. Maud Alice, Lady Cunard, birdlike blonde widow of fox-hunting Sir Bache Cunard. The daughter of the late E. F. Burke of New York and known to Mayfair as '"Emerald," Lady Cunard is the mother of exotic Nancy Cunard, whose fondness for Negroes as...
It has often been complained of in the past that the Student Council is aloof from the general sentiments of the student body. It has been indicated as a cabal, working at exotic measures in secret conclave, responsible only to an apathetic electorate, which has no continuity of thought over...
The Japanese pair receive very little support from the English attache who is infatuated with the exotic beauty of his foreign colleague's wife. In depicting the British simplicity and ingenuousness that is meant to contrast so strongly with the subtle Japanese craftiness, he outdoes himself and becomes mainly stupid...
Based obviously, if not candidly, upon the Sacco-Vanzetti case, the play has an absorbing story to tell. Mio Romagna's father has been executed for a murder which he did not commit. He was considered a dangerous radical and all the potent forces of conventionalized prejudice united to convict...