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Time of Danger. The Album provides an answer. Among the knickknacks and decorations of life, the pots and kettles and meat barrels, there were the objects which testified to the sense of constant danger and the sense of constant strangeness under which the hard-working colonials lived. The barrel of...
"This experiment in close living has lasted 600 days so far. The first 500 were the hardest; they are now increasingly pleasant." The meals, the weather, the prisoners' health, the social life, reported Halsema, were all pretty dandy. "Camp food is exotic," he wrote, "and we're used...
Victoria Grandolet is an uneven, atmosphere-saturated novel, expertly written, distinguished by some subtle shadings in its portraits, and weakened by an overemphasis on the romanticism of the Old South. It is noteworthy because there might seem to be no earthly reason why this story of married life should come...
They arrived in their native dress, wearing the nobility's turbans (mounted with gold-wrapped ropes made of camel's hair), were greeted by Assistant Secretary of State Adolf A. Berle Jr., and Brigadier General Patrick Jay Hurley, were instantly voted the two most exotic good neighbors of...
They were Negro and white troops. Advance contingent was a regiment of engineers who had built Army bases in Canada. Their camps were exotic-clusters of bamboo bashas (huts) surrounded by giant hardwoods, wild growths of pale orchids, glistening green jungles. But incessant rains drenched them. Roving Jap patrols sniped...