Word: orientals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...White House then was a slim saucy miss called "Princess Alice" Roosevelt. Congressman Longworth met her, danced with her, took her motoring in one of the capital's first cars. Under the chaperonage of Secretary of War William Howard Taft they, with others, made a junket together to the Orient. When their home-coming steamer docked at San Francisco, a newshawk spotted a very dapper young man busily engaged with bags and grips on deck while a pert and pretty girl sat on a trunk whistling at him the then popular tune, "I'd Leave My Happy Home...
...traveled extensively, lived several years in the Orient. Wherever he went, he was welcome only once: former hosts cut him on the street after they had appeared in his pages. An old man before his time, friendless, lonely, he died in the arms of the only person he had ever cared for, his old mistress Lizzie...
More recently Hossain has been lecturing to audiences in Europe and America on political, economic, and cultural relations between the Orient and the Occident. Years of editorial experience in Asia and Europe make his knowledge of the problems involved first-hand and authentic. As editor of the "New Orient," America's latest magazine of Eastern affairs, he is bringing before western minds the Oriental's point of view in art, religion, and letters...
Customs Inspector John Sterling, whose duty it is to comb for drugs all ships arriving in Manhattan from the Orient, paused beside the British motor-freighter Raby Castle last week and sniffed. "Opium!" said he, and set about with his crew of 40 to find it. They went down to the base of the forward mast, deep in the hold. There, surrounded by impassive Chinese the Inspector tapped the steel mast, found it hollow. "Bring a drill!" said he. Out of this hole in the hollow mast he soon extracted tins of opium worth $150,000 at $25 an ounce...
...Author. Jean-Richard Bloch is known to U. S. readers as author of a realistic super-novel of industrialism ("?& Co.", TIME, Jan. 27, 1930). In this venture into a savage Orient he shows a power of historical imagination you may admire but will hardly find surprising. A Night in Kurdistan is the kind of melodrama an artist sometimes makes...