Word: orientals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...natural-born mimic with a voice box in its trachea, the Mynah lives all over the orient, especially in India and the Malay Penninsula. Not all Mynahs can be taught to talk. Those that can are a gold mine for bird fanciers...
...stretch of land in all the world is so crowded with historic ruins, sterile and clean beneath the desert dust. Through oases in Turkestan, over one of the master roads of history, wound caravans and pack trains that linked the West and East. To Europe went silks from the Orient; to China came furs, jade and treasured goods from lands beyond the Wall. From these lands burst out great nomad hordes (Huns, Mongols, Turks) that time & again had devastated both civilized Europe and the capitals of China...
...over $50" and the volume runs from 10-40 hats a day. His list of customers reads like an amalgam of the Social Register, Variety and Who's Who in Commerce & Industry*. In search of new ideas, he has made 40 European junkets, six trips to the Orient and four around the world...
Paul N. Lideen, 6-43, Northwestern '36 and Larchmont, New York. He plays trumpet for NTS and got most of his experience touring the Orient with a dance band...
...graceful John Bovingdon is no ballet dancer; an uneasy press has generally described him as a religious, rhythmic, or "monodrama" dancer. Harvard-man Bovingdon (1915, magna cum laude), the baldest dancer since Harald Kreutzberg, toured Russia and the Orient in the 1920s and '30s, wearing a long beard, knickerbockers and sandals...