Word: oriented
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...special lectures on subjects of interest to art-lovers have been scheduled for next week at the Fogg Art Museum. On Tuesday at 8.15 o'clock Sir E. Denison Ross, District Traveller and Director of the School of Oriental Studies in the London Institute, will speak on "Persian Poetry in Relation to Persian Miniature Painting." Sir Denison is an authority on art and culture in the Orient and has made a special study of Persia...
sailed from Manhattan on the S. S. President Coolidge on her maiden voyage, in charge of the shipboard branch office of William Cavalier & Co., brokers. At San Francisco Mrs. Moody will board the ship, sail to the Orient to play in invitation tournaments...
Artiglio II seaman, "in some mud the divers sent up from the Egypt's galley- cursed smelly mud!" Other "finds" washed by nose-holding sailors from the pantry mud: ¶ Brass disk stamped "P. & O." (the Egypt was a Peninsular & Orient liner). ¶ Rusty tube of a onetime shaving stick. ¶ Portion of an English Bible. "The rest of this Bible," conjectured the diver who sent the mud up, "had been gnawed away, probably by rats before the Egypt sank." Soon primed last week with wine, spaghetti and fresh bombs, Artiglio II resumed from Brest her quest...
...continued to hold Mukden. The Japanese Cabinet expressed itself as being very much embarrassed. That, apparently, was just what the militarist faction intended it should be. The Mukden affair seemed to boil down to a struggle in Japanese politics, upon the outcome of which hinged the peace of the Orient...
...League of Nations last week landed a party of scientists in Manhattan to take lessons in ratcatching. The scientists were quarantine and health officers from France, Germany, Great Britain, Holland and Spain, nations whose ships go to the plague-infested Orient and return with a continuous threat of reintroducing the awful Black Death to Europe.? The U. S. has been happily free of plague for a dozen years, because of strict water front precautions. The Europeans were sent to study those precautions at firsthand. Ships carry rats which carry fleas which carry bubonic plague...