Word: orientale
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For the second time a small group of Harvard students are travelling to Lingnan University in Canton, where they will sleep on mats, cat rice, and absorb a blended education drawn from both Oriental and Occidental sources. The picture is a pleasing one--a Westernized institution of high standing set...
Late that afternoon Dr. Ruxton sent not for his usual charwoman but for a Mrs. Hampshire, a humble soul who was working off a debt to the doctor and might keep her mouth shut. She found, as she afterwards testified, the house a shambles, with straw littered in all the...
As he was sentenced to hang by the neck until dead, the Mohammedan seemed stunned. Then suddenly Hakim Bakhtyar Rustomji Ratanji came to himself and without jittering or trembling gave his British judge with upraised arm the salute of Oriental warriors. As two wardens came to lead him from the...
In each of these two great fighting services Japanese officers traditionally stand together with the solidarity of an Oriental family. The Emperor by tradition never commands an unwilling officer to agree to serve under an official so intrinsically civilian as Japan's Premier.
Martha Graham grew up in Pittsburgh, Pa., daughter of a nerve specialist. One humiliating Sunday he saw his daughter, aged 2, spontaneously lift her skirts, flounce down a Presbyterian church aisle while her mother's head was bowed solemnly in prayer. As her legs grew longer, Martha Graham was...