Word: occidentalizing
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Without a single dissenting vote the French Chamber passed a resolution congratulating Mr. Roosevelt.* The Speaker of the Chamber, Radical Socialist Edouard Herriot, voiced his "personal satisfaction."Socialist Premier Blum cried: "I am most happy at the triumph of President Roosevelt, for whom I have the greatest admiration!" As a...
Kings and queens and bishops from the Occident, the Orient, and even the South Seas will rule over the Semitic Museum beginning this week, as one of the finest collections of chessmen in the world opens to public display.
Japanese Deputies sat up and beamed as Mr. Hirota went on to make what is, if accurate, a most important disclosure. "The Chinese Government," he announced, "not only has indicated its concurrence with all our views but proposed recently to open negotiations on Chino-Japanese rapprochement along the lines stated...
As this secret conference began in Nanking, Shanghai was gloomier than at any time since the Twenty-One Demands. Last year Japan delivered a quiet, crushing blow to Chinese industry by forcing Generalissimo Chiang to lower tariffs on leading Japanese exports to China and up tariffs on leading imports from...
Briefly he considered, sensibly he decided that the Occident's spurious "Tahitian pareos" are far more indecent than the Tahitians' pareus. If socialites may wear the one on the beaches of Florida (see cut) the Polynesians may wear the other in the landscape it was made for. Brusquely...