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As Japan played the soft music for Quezon's dips and turns, last week it was apparent that Quezon had begun to dance still more exotic steps. Imperious boss of the Islands but still subject to their U. S.-made laws, Quezon has proposed an amendment to the Tydings...
Detectifiction addicts know strange curare as the exotic drug which causes undiagnosable death. Richard Gill knew it as the dark brown, pitchlike poison brewed by the Amazon Indians, who use it to tip the darts of their blowguns. Some two or three minutes after a victim is hit by a...
In 296 boxes, 100,000 of the beeties are of a North American series. 50,000 are of the exotic type beetle, and remaining 100,000 belong to another North American group. Also included in the collection are a few thousand butterflies and moths.
Revealing of Wilde's character is Biographer Winwar's picture of the sun-flower-&-lily school he dramatized, the arch-esthete contemporaries he cultivated and admired-Painter Jimmie Whistler, who hammered home the theory that art has no morals and trained Wilde in the most cynical wit of...
It is rumored that the Hays office has of late been letting down the bars, and "My Little Chickadee" supplies evidence to bear out this contention. Very typical is the scene where Flower Belle puts an exotic goat in Guthbert J. Twillie's bed. "My dear," admonishes Fields, as he...