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Word: orientales (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Andrew Kan, Chinese merchant of Seattle, recently returned from the great oriental Republic, says the world has gone " Mah Jongg mad." Mr. Kan should know. He went to China to place orders for a half a million sets, but was only able to obtain a fraction of that number, owing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Mah Jongg | 7/2/1923 | See Source »

In view of the general uncertainty of the situation, it can only be said that China is split into a great and a small camp; the one representing the Tuchuns (War Lords) and the other composed of the most enlightened men of China. Briefly, the struggle is between oriental and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Quo Fad is? | 6/25/1923 | See Source »

Leopold Godowsky, now on a concert tour in Java, has high phrases to speak in praise of Javanese music and the national Javanese instrument, the gamelang. This is a clear-toned string instrument with that beauty of sound that you find in oriental string instruments. People who have heard it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Gamelang | 6/25/1923 | See Source »

Died. Mme. Prouchesta Rustomjee, wife of Rustom Rustomjee, of Bombay, former editor of The Oriental Review, in Chicago.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jun. 4, 1923 | 6/4/1923 | See Source »

It seems strange, however, that Americans should show enthusiastic admiration for such a figure. For he has declared that Liberty is dead, and representative government a thing of the past. By his speeches and actions he has abnegated the principles of our Constitution. He should be, to American eyes, a...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE NEW AUGUSTUS | 5/22/1923 | See Source »

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