Word: indo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Indo-China Water Dragon...
Travelers have observed that the Persian is apt to be tolerably pious, quite up to Occidental average in sexual morality, easygoing, indo lent, not particularly patriotic and almost joyfully unencumbered by anything remotely approaching an Occidental's concept of financial integrity. An official or a rich man has immemorially been expected to accept bribes, embezzle, cheat. The peasantry have usually chosen for their principal crop that hardy weed, the opium plant, a species of vegetation which requires absolutely no cultivation and fairly luxuriates upon the ideal soil of Persia. Not surprising, then, was the discovery of the Millspaugh Mission that...
...crisp, discerning picture of what the East is now-not was 30 years ago when Aunt Florence was there-the book deserves a place on the bookshelf of even a confirmed domiciler. How many stay-at-homes, or travelers either, know that French Indo-China boasts a chief port (Saigon) which thoroughly deserves its nickname, "Paris of the East"? There you can sit at an iron café table, surrounded by boulevardiers who speak only French, for all the world as though the Place de l'Opera were around the corner, and Montmartre just up the hill. Nearby...
...rite. Entering a small cubicle engaged for her in advance, she closed the door, molded a blob of wax, placed it on the bridge of her flattish nose. She fastened flesh-tinted court-plaster to her slanting eyes, creamed and powdered her broad cheeks, all so deftly that an Indo-European girl, or at most a Eurasian, left the dressing-room where a little Nipponese had gone in. Not until she reached Detroit last week was real attention paid this young woman by newsgatherers. Then the fact was broadcast that the Yum-Yum of the Messrs. Shubert's Mikado...
...career" began when, after becoming an influential lawyer at Nîmes, he was sent as a beady-eyed, black-mustached Magistrate, first to Indo-China (1890-92) and then to Algeria (1892-93). Returning, he was elected a Deputy, became a noted authority on colonial administration, held several of the lesser Ministries, became a Senator in 1910, and Premier...