Word: orientales
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With true Oriental courtesy, Rondi's challenge read: "I read with indignation and disgust your infamous articles on your recent trip to Sicily. As a citizen of Glorious Palermo, famed for its courtesy, I notify you herewith that I consider your ears boxed."
Pavlowa is in the habit of reaping scintillant appreciations of this nature. She has just returned from a deliriously successful tour of the Near and Far East, and is again invading our cities with Oriental novelties, chiefly Russian, of course.
Ahmad, ex-Shah of Persia, seventh of the Kajar dynasty, youthful and rotund, learned last week in Paris that the Persian Parliament had deposed him, that he no longer had the right to be termed Sultan. Depatches stated that the 26-year-old exile "has wept continuously since receiving the...
Lilac, oriental bouquet, jasmine, French bouquet, violet, rose. That is the order in which women prefer perfumes, according to tests made on 200 girls of Barnard and Teachers' College by Professor Albert T. Poffenberger, Columbia psychologist. The results were confirmed by more numerous subjects at the 71st Regiment Armory...
SAYONARA -John Paris -Boni & Liveright ($2.00). Another Rain, in a Japanese setting: geisha girls, Anglican bishops, cherry blossoms, suicide. The author of the controversial Kimono has again scratched off the customary Oriental glamour and uncovered a realistic-at times amusing, at times sordid-picture of Japanese life. Beneath the rather...