Word: jap
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Paunchy President Gaston Doumergue of France received last week at the Elysee a lean, taut-waisted, owlishly spectacled Jap, Prince Chichibu, second son of the Mikado...
Conrad is dead. But romanticism, the best kind of romanticism, is not dead. Like Aristotle and those who hug the hems of his ethical garments it lingers on. And so an American, who might just as well have been a Norwegian or a Frenchman or a Jap, risks his life to cross the uncharted areas of the Polar seas, for no more potent reason than the desire to do the impossible...
...phantom on the point of being crushed by a thousand falling elevated trains and run over by a horde of cockroach taxicabs. It was a "satire on the U. S. flapper." Noboru Foujioka painted some dejected cretins playing at cards, called it "American Spirit." And another member of the Jap-Manhattan school showed "evolution" as a tree with the body of an ape, burrowing worms for roots, a fruit of masks against a sky studded with glass diamonds. There was a wooden "bust" of Paul Whiteman by Guillermo Bolin which clearly demonstrated the jazz-priest's resemblance...
...Sand borrowed all it could from Madame Butterfly, including soft off-stage harmonies, and failed to repay the loan. It added certain novelties from which the edge was worn by unreality. The twist awards the Japanese heroine to the American hero (unknown to him, his mother was a Jap girl). Before this sweet solution can release the audience, there are six scenes in and about Manhattan, beginning with the meeting of the chief participants at a Far East bazaar in Forest Hills. The performers were generally apt but the play is apt to end presently in the storehouse...
...called ''South Sea") Islands. Most of this comparatively unknown development has occurred in the Dutch East Indies. Unfortunately, the aboriginal character of these populations render the value of a "conversion" doubtful; and most leaders of missionary enterprise are frank to say in effect: "Better one Chinaman or Jap than fifty Islanders." And working-over the figures as a whole, missionary generals reflect that their banners wave more brightly over dusky people with a low order of indigenous culture than they do in the ancient sunlight of ancient civilizations...