Word: orientales
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last year (TIME, Dec. 15, LAW) Rajah Sir Hari Singh of Kashmir fell foul of his own indiscretion and of a rascally pack of blackmailers. Having surprised him in Paris, at a moment when he was closeted in a hotel room with a certain Mrs. Robinson, they extracted $750,000...
Meanwhile remembrance is busy with the late Maharaja, third of his line, grandson of Ghulab Singh, founder of the Kashmir dynasty. For two score years he ruled in Oriental splendor from his palace at Srinagar, effected important political and social reforms, and was so far friendly to the British that...
No protests similar to that of Subscriber Guthe have come to hand. Possibly because the reviewer spoke of the Chicken-Wagon Family (TIME, Sept. 21) as "an unforgetable book"; of Five Oriental Tales (TIME, Sept. 14) as ". . . keen-edged. . . glinting fine irony"; of The Perennial Bachelor (TIME, Sept. 7) as...
Painting Ghost. Prom the north of France had came a middle-aged coal miner, Augustin Lesage. In 1912, working as he had worked for 20 years far down in a black bowel of the earth, Augustin heard "voices," like those Joan of Arc declared called her, telling him to stop...
Five Oriental Tales?Comte de Gobineau?Viking Press ($2.50). Conflicts of immense critical import have been waged as to whether or not Philosopher Joseph Arthur Comte de Gobineau, (1816-62), was or was not a touring precursor of Nietzsche, which great Nordic, together with Composer Wagner, "discovered" Gobineau and made...