Word: exoticisms
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Pi Eta's exotic leading lady, Sherman B. Cawley, will disappoint his public in the coming showing of "Blondes For Defense"--he didn't convince the draft board.
Completely uninfluenced by highbrow, esthetic theories and by the splashy Impressionist and Post-Impressionist styles that then dominated French art, Painter Rousseau painted things he enjoyed: exotic, tropical jungles full of childishly round-eyed animals, portraits of his friends, wistful nudes reclining in imaginary, saladlike forest scenes.
Arizona Cacti. The giant saguaro cacti, Carnegiea gigantea (named for Andrew Carnegie)-which are not especially useful, but add an exotic beauty to Arizona's landscape-have now & then fallen sick, but in 1940 a bacterial disease attacked them with unusual virulence. Some giants developed oozy cankers, bled to...
Bowditch's first voyage took him to the French Isle of Bourbon (now Reunion) in the Indian Ocean. It was exotic after Salem, but not as exotic as Bowditch seemed to the French when he blushed at their conversations. "Il n'a pas encore perdu sa pucelage," a...
Nobody planned Saburo Kurusu's trip to impress him. But there is now no way to cross the U.S.-except on foot through the woods, or on a dark night above the clouds-and not see signs of U.S. arms, signs of U.S. strength. Kurusu flew southward over United...