Word: orientale
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"The conscience of the racially pure Teuton tells him what is right and what is wrong. The Oriental has no conscience, being of mixed race. He does not perceive what is right as clearly as does the German. That is why the Oriental is obliged to learn law, to read...
Persia & Irak. "And the trees that bear wool I clipped." So wrote Sennacherib, king of the Assyrians seven centuries before Christ. His wool-bearing "trees" were the earliest known cotton. For the cotton and for his fabulous gardens at Nineveh he needed water. Dr. James Henry Breasted, famed founder-director...
An unusually luxurious limousine standing in front of Manhattan's luxurious Sherry-Xetherland Hotel fortnight ago attracted the attention of a smart New York Sun reporter. The silver radiator cap, big as a baby's head, was a replica of Ben Hur's chariot. Silver trimmings on...
Born in Aiken, S. C., 56 years ago, John Munro Woolsey went to Phillips Andover, Yale, Columbia Law School. For hobbies he collects pipes, strangely blended tobaccoes, old clocks. He plays mediocre golf, wearing a peculiar oriental cap to keep the sun from shining into his spectacles.
As the crack Italian liner Conte di Savoia neared Naples, bearing roly-poly Comrade Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff from his triumph in Washington, the Italian Press burst with significant unanimity into a "tune" evidently called by Benito Mussolini. From the toe of the Italian boot to its strap among the Alps...