Word: occidentale
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Now 76, Benjamin Bloom landed in El Salvador in 1890 and went into banking. His steadiest business was the financing of coffee crops. When planters dropped in at his office in San Salvador's Banco Occidental, he usually put them at ease with a couple of smoking-car stories...
Leach had brought 301 examples of his own hand craftsmanship with him to Washington. There were urns, vases, teacups, mugs and plates whose clean lines and subdued colors echoed the golden age of Chinese pottery. But none was slavishly Chinese and some were "modern." A first-class craftsman and connoisseur...
Mad dogs and Englishmen, Old Rudyard himself, and assorted fans of the esoteric dance, all absent Tuesday night from the new Boston Dance Theatre at 31 Hemmenway Street, would have reveled in "Music and Dances of India," brought to occidental footlights by Lakshimi Wana Singh. Those debutantes, patrons of the...
By early afternoon on election day, only a few people hurried to the polls along the palm-shaded streets of Bacolod City, capital of Occidental Negros Province in the Philippines. As the voters entered the rickety, paper-covered polling booths they glanced nervously at the carbine-carrying, khaki-clad youths...
The U.S. had hoped that, after a half century of democratic American tutelage, the Philippines had been made safer for democracy than any other country in Asia; last week's national elections for a new President and Congress rudely upset that hope. Not everywhere were conditions as bad as...