Word: orientalally
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In view of the troubled state of the world, King Farouk had promised to make the wedding a simple affair, and perhaps by oriental standards it was. A mere 2,500 people gathered in the square outside Farouk's suburban palace at Kubbeh one morning last week when Egypt...
The man responsible for transplanting the tune is Wilfrid Thomas, Australian disc jockey, who picked up the record in a back street in Hong Kong, brought it to London with him last winter. The oriental lilt caught the British fancy. A flood of letters and inquiries at record shops sent...
For the eating fan, which every girl is after a week of college food, Chin's Chinese Village, also on Route Nine, offers Oriental and Occidental dishes, while the 1812 House, farther along the same road, specializes in fine old American meals.
Like millions of Indians who follow in his train, Nehru is a paradox. He is not a typical Indian: he is a Westernized Oriental. Beatrice and Sidney Webb, the godparents of Fabian Socialism, are in a truer sense his creators than Vishnu and Siva.
Magnani, who suffered bruises, again defied his former comrades: "They have noticed that we are no longer escorted by police, but we are not afraid. We will hit back." Bleeding Cucchi said: "I expected this to happen one day or another . . . the Communist party . . . behaving like an oriental tyrant."