Word: exoticisms
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Sometimes the men write because some thing in Italy or Australia reminds them of something at home. More often they are reminded of home because things are so different where they are. Sometimes they write apropos of nothing: "How I would like to be back at Virginia Beach in October...
For Unity. For dreary months last winter, in a dreary wasteland camp, 5,000 men of the Greek First Brigade trained for battle service. Many were tough veterans, evzones who had doffed their exotic petti coats and pomponed slippers to fight frost bite and Italians in Albania's wild...
To thousands of U.S. cinemaddicts Dancer Tilly Losch means a pair of slanted, come-on eyes, a wide, exotic mouth and a series of seductive contortions. Last week, Dancer Losch (who is also the Countess of Carnarvon) was making her Manhattan debut as a painter.
In Detroit's 243-year history, probably no more exotic a luncheon had been served. The 275 guests at the Inter-American Air Cargo luncheon ate food that had been flown thousands of miles.
What Could He Lose? Leonard Warren reversed the usual U.S. operatic procedure and changed an exotic name to more familiar syllables. He was born Warrenoff in The Bronx, where his Russian-born father ran a fur shop. After graduating from Evander Childs High School he helped with his father'...