Word: orientale
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"When, in 1928, the meteoric career of Joe Strong, the Boy Plunger, ended abruptly with the latter's disappearance from Wall Street, few knew that Perelman had ended another chapter. In bloody Cicero, Illinois, swart Sicilian mobsters fingered their roscoes uneasily, dismayed at lightning forays by a new rival...
Vice and deputy consul-general at Rio de Janeiro, 1903-4; vice consul at Nagasaki, Japan, 1904-5; consul at Vladivostok, 1905-7; vice president in the Far East of the Rockefeller Foundation, 1927-29; acting director of Peiping Union Medical College, 1927-35; member of the American Society of...
We have advanced beyond that point, but not far enough yet. Harvard and several other universities now have courses in the Chinese and Japanese languages and their literature, history and art, but there is still little to be learned in American colleges about social and economic conditions in Asia, where...
Milton Caniff is a youngish (34) comic strip artist whose Terry and the Pirates is popular (23,000,000 subscribing readers in some no civilian papers) partly because it is filled with lusciously sculptured ladies who move sensuously against a background of Oriental intrigue. In the early autumn Artist Caniff...
The other all-too common fallacy is that liberal education is best represented by Indic philology or Oriental art. This is to raise liberal education to a realm so ethereal that only the privileged few can breathe its rarefied atmosphere, and consequently it is to deny a great part of...