Word: java
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...current number of the Advocate, throughout a considerable amount of fiction, maintains an unusual degree of capability. The sketches range in theme from the intrigue of a sailor in Java to the gossip of ladies at afternoon bridge. The authors who have contributed these sketches write with assurance. They preserve an air of tried narrative skill; they expound both masculine and feminine character unabashed, as if experience sat lightly upon their shoulders, and no recess of human nature could resist the tolerant ease of their perceptions. Nor do they permit themselves any unduly meretricious display of mastery: restraint and directness...
...citizen of the Netherlands, he was born in Java, in the Dutch East Indies, and has passed his life there and in Australia and New Zealand. After learning English in Australia he concerned himself with English literature and is said by New Zealand periodicals to be "one of the few men working today to introduce Eastern beauty into Western literature...
...Anthropology yesterday. "Dr. Alex Hrdlicka of the National Museum in Washington is anxious to take several students interested in anthropology with him on an expedition beginning. April 1. He is setting out for a series of visits to the locations of former discoveries of prehistoric remains in Africa, Java, India, and Australia...
...went forth-three one way, three the other. Three left New Jersey in the evening. They were at San Fran- cisco at sunset; in Honolulu in the afternoon; in Malabar (Java) in the morning; in London mist in the wee, small hours; back on Long Island in the evening. The other three left Massachusetts at the same time their fellows set out. They were in Paris in the wee, small hours; in Saigon (French Indo-China) in the morning;" in San Francisco at sunset; and also at Long Island in the evening. The evening of departure and arrival...
...adelphia, later studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Of Quaker descent, his preoccupation has always been with beautiful surfaces, in landscapes, women, old furniture, centuries. A symposium of critics last year voted him America's most important novelist. His works include Mountain Blood, Three Black Pennys, Java Head, The Happy End, Cytherea, The Bright Shawl...