Word: macassar
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...drilled for in Borneo and Java, tin to be dug in Bangka. Coffee, tea, tobacco, sugar, rice are the more ordinary products; but copra as a basis for facial creams, lizard skins for shoes and handbags, Sumatra wrappers for cigars, cinchona bark for quinine, sandalwood and teakwood, ebony and macassar oil, and even the bare-breasted women of Bali, tourist paradise, do their full share in making this Netherlands overseas a going concern...
...attentive woman who said politely that she had heard he was rich and successful. They exchanged formal comments about their careers, and the self-conscious traveler, feeling a little ridiculous and more concerned than ever about the prestige of the white race, hurried on to visit Java, Bali, Sumatra, Macassar, and other island haunts with the passionate absorption of a middle-aged romantic who had set out in quest of his youth, found it and decided it had not amounted to much...
...rent for the Greek Common Room in Adams House of which he has been the sole occupant during the current season. However the latest and by far the most serious situation, as it is entirely a matter of the Vagabond's personal cosmology, centers in and about the anti-macassar atmosphere of Grays 18, home of history and literature. The collegiate play-boy has at last met with a situation with which he is utterly unable to cope. He has run headlong into a trap masked with the deceptive laurels of a Degree with Honors, which has turned...
...John stood pale blue pilasters around the ballroom, hung it with coral pink curtains, placed above the dancers an oval blue sky with dancing white stars. Edmund Dulac did the smoking room, "Cathay Lounge." with a silver ceiling, panels of black & silver glass, accents of Chinese red lacquer and Macassar ebony...
...most exquisite of jewels stupidly known as semiprecious; bodies that borrow the dyes of those birds that streak green jungle tunnels with a brilliance as of exploding flame?the golden-headed trogon of Ecuador, the green tanager, the Chinese jay, the yellow woodpecker of Venezuela; a body inlaid with Macassar ebony from the island of Celebes; a Salamanca cabriolet whose interior is a Louis XV tapestry reproduced from the original in the Metropolitan Museum in two and a half million stitches, from the needle of a woman named Helen Pascal...