Word: exoticisms
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Whooping Congress man. A migratory species of Washington rara avis best known for raucous cries and laying eggs in exotic places. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, The Scrutable Occidental.
Krishna Fluting, by JOhn Berry. An exotic, erotic, comic novel of Quakers in India, by a writer who seldom turns a mere journeyman's line.
Audiences have generally been disturbed by the sordidness of Jenufa's libretto (it hinges on the drowning of an illegitimate child), by the opera's harshly dissonant score, and its generally unmelodic vocal line. Composer Janacek derived many of his melodies from the inflections of common speech, caught...
All four denied that the money was in any way considered an inducement to plug the Hess store in their columns. Nevertheless, that was what Hess got from three of the columnists. Said Considine, who wrote about the store's stock of exotic foods: "Made a nice little feature...
For most of Author Berry's exotic, expertly written comic novel, Peter is bivouacked in a native village while scouting his python. The chief's head wife plies him with roast bats, and the chief himself leeringly confides the secret which has enabled him to live (or so...