Word: orientale
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Emily Hahn, rash, black-haired, late-jazz-age authoress (Seductio ad Absurdum) who became Shanghai's favorite ex-New Yorker, deplored the lack of Occidental gossip. Back in the U.S. (via the Gripsholm) for the first time in nine years, the onetime "China Coast Correspondent" of The New Yorker...
Natural shellac is produced in much the same way as beeswax. It is a resin secreted by insects called Laccifer lacca. After feeding on the sap of certain cultivated Oriental trees, the insects coat the tree twigs with an exudation called "lac" (from the Sanskrit word laksha, meaning 100,000...
Born. To Gene Tierney Cassini, 22, oriental-eyed cinemalulu; and Army Lieut. Oleg Cassini, 30, peacetime couturier, ex-husband of Patent Medicine Heiress Merry ("Madcap") Fahrney: a daughter; in Washington. Weight: 3 lb. 2 oz.
Chief organizer of current U.S. intensive language programs is the American Council of Learned Societies, which, with Rockefeller backing, has launched courses in almost 30 Oriental and African tongues. Even their hottest opponents cannot deny the production of fluent colloquial speakers of the most difficult tongues in six to nine...
In the heart of Mexico City's business district, in a showroom, a thin, redheaded man reclined on an adapted operating table. He was attired in rich oriental costume. Both his feet and one hand were nailed to blocks of wood, with long golden nails. He had been in...