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Word: exoticisms (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Come to judgment in Manhattan last week and this were the works of more than 50 U. S. artists of all ages, regions and schools, salted with a sprinkling of solid or exotic Europeans. In the lot were no new efforts by the three lusty young men from the West...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: New Season | 10/18/1937 | See Source »

To 25-year-old Prizewinner Wallace Stegner, top place was well awarded for a finished performance. Remembering Laughter has a horse-&-buggy era, Iowa setting. Inhibited by his beautiful, strait-laced wife, spirited Farmer McLeod discovers in her equally beautiful but more lifelike younger sister a long-lacked audience and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Novelette Finalists | 10/11/1937 | See Source »

Neither an exotic nor a professional prophet, 42-year-old Professor Lips does not go off the deep end with his late eminent countryman, Oswald Spengler, who prophesied an onslaught on Europe by a black horde led by white adventurers. But he does not present savages as the pitiably naive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Dark Mirrors | 9/20/1937 | See Source »

This week at the Exposition less brainy sightseers had huge fun bargaining with native bazaar-keepers, sampling exotic perfumes and avidly whiffing strange smells on the long island in the Seine upon which France has strung like so many pearls her overseas colonies. Muddy, reeking with pungent coffee and spices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Success! | 8/9/1937 | See Source »

Born & bred in Philadelphia, Miss Montgomery was dancing years before she came out in 1928. Since she is the daughter of rich Banker Robert Learning ("Colonel Bob") Montgomery, she has had plenty of money to study, compose, paint, model, indulge her taste for exotic instruments including Japanese "fish-heads," tiny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Dancing Philadelphians | 7/19/1937 | See Source »

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