Word: orientale
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The next night, in the patio of Tangier's casbah, a lissome girl in a shimmering blue silk Lanvin gown, milk-white turban and evening slippers gracefully ascended a dais piled high with priceless Oriental carpets, and turned to face her audience. Younger men in the audience eyed appreciatively...
"You can wait in here, I'll be back in a minute," she said, showing me into a room through a purple door. The room held a curious assortment of decoration: an oriental rug, a Japanese figure lamp, a serapecovered chair, and flower prints surrounded a green modern couch half...
Reider, still bothered by his respiratory ailment, did not make the trip, nor did sophomore Ed Martin, who is still under the weather with the flu. Dartmouth's top two runners were also felled by the ubiquitous oriental.
Two typical qualities mark the third volume of Winston Churchill's History of the English-Speaking Peoples (there is a final volume on The Nineteenth Century yet to come). One quality is control; Churchill manages to grasp a huge and chaotic period (1688-1815) without ever letting a war...
Inside, the room is small and well-lit by scattered oriental lanterns of paper mache. Mirrors face each other on the walls, cut and concluding in pointed spires like sagging Byzantium domes.