Word: orienteers
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...recognition of the growing interest and importance of the Orient in world affairs, Serge Elisseeff, director of the Harvard-Yenching Institute, and Professor of Far Eastern Languages has proposed to the Corporation that an entire new division, the Division of Far Eastern Languages, be established...
...commandeer a British warship in an emergency. At the present time there are only three King's Messengers: Major Custance, Lieut. Colonel Porter, and Acting Messenger Wilton. Week after week, they take a number of red morocco boxes filled with diplomatic documents to Paris, where they board the Orient Express to Istanbul and Cairo. On the out trip they drop off boxes at Lausanne (for Geneva), Milan (for Rome), Budapest, Bucharest, Belgrade, Athens, pick up others at the same points on their way home. No King's Messenger is necessary for Washington since Britain's diplomatic documents...
Dream tours have been a stock joke in Philadelphia for years. Stokowski has talked of taking the Philadelphia Orchestra to Europe, South America, the Orient. One reason for his tiff with his directors last season was their failure to see their way clear to financing a tour while there was a considerable deficit at home (TIME, Oct. 29, 1934 et seq.). The angel that suddenly popped up was RCA Victor, for which Stokowski and his orchestra make many a red-seal phonograph record. RCA Victor underwrote the current tour for $250,000, hoping to get back much...
...year Venetian amusements were penny-pinching, snuff-taking, gambling and adultery for the 40 ruling families. Venice's maritime power and the Mediterranean's role as the world's central sea had been ended by the discovery of the Cape of Good Hope route to the Orient. A declining 17th Century Venice could not defend outlying possessions. Despoiled 18th Century Venice survived on the remnants of its great traders' fortunes, and the city slowly, deliberately died, as Austria's Vienna dies today. In this cemetery of old magnificence, half a dozen men supplied the only...
George Santayana, "The Last Puritan"; John Gunther, "Inside Europe"; Negley Farson, "The Way of the Transgressor"; Alexis Carrel, "Man the Unknown"; Anne Lindbergh, "North to the Orient"; Walter Duranty, "I Write as I Please"; P. G. Wodehouse, "The Bodkins...