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Immigration men consider that yarn a venerable chestnut. Almost every Oriental picked up for illegal entry into the U.S. has tried to use it.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: Venerable Chestnut | 2/23/1948 | See Source »

Another organization joined the Coop in searching for bandits this week, although on a somewhat smaller scale, as Phillips Brooks House looked for the answer to the "mysterious disappearance" of two small oriental rugs from the main parlor and a set of window drapes from ladies' room.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Local Police Hunt Rugs and Drapes Snatched at PBH | 2/20/1948 | See Source »

This Oriental splendiferousness is extremely expensive. A newly formed Italian-American krewe spent $50,000 for this year's ball; the cost of all 49 would total half a million dollars. Supper parties for 49 carnival queens-one of whom wore a costume worth $3,500-would come to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Carnival | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

The experimenters "set out to discover which diseases, spread by air, are most easily contracted and most fatal. Tularemia (rabbit fever) won on both counts. Runners-up: melioidosis, a glanders-like Oriental disease; glanders.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Germs for World War III? | 12/29/1947 | See Source »

One February morning in 1896, readers of the New York Sunday World found something new in the feature section. It was a three-quarter-page colored panel titled The Great Dog Show in M'Googan's Avenue, and peopled with alley cats, stray hounds and slum bums in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Stuff of Dreams | 12/1/1947 | See Source »

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