Word: orients
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...many Chinese have gotten the idea that a new era dawned on the world when the American colonies broke away from England. Believing that American greatness began with revolution, the Chinese have followed suit with revolutionary movements of their own. . . . Someone ought to protest against such dissemination in the Orient of the poisonous idea that revolution is a necessary antecedent to prosperity...
Economists recalled that, before the invention and commercial success of artificial silks in the past few years, abortive efforts to transplant silk production from the Orient to the New World were periodic. Cortes introduced silkworms in Mexico. James I tried to establish them in Virginia in 1609. A law still on the books though long dead requires Virginia farmers to plant six mulberry trees per annum for seven years. Just before .the Revolution a great fever for growing silk swept the colonies. In 1771 President Stiles of Yale and Mrs. Stiles raised 3,000 silkworms and sent their produce...
Hours late because of floods and washouts the Simplon-Orient Express from Paris drew wheezing into Bucharest last week, with the Royal Salon...
Utterly out of the rut of "travel books"are two volumes, respectively about the Far East* and the Far North.** Aldous Huxley, a goggled-eyed aesthetic master at turning trifles into significant facts, sets forth the searing paradoxes which he constructed on a trip around the world featuring the Orient but including (and devastating) the U. S. The Scandinavian wanderers have caught uniquely well the healthy rural glow, the astounding civic progress and the insufferably"countrified" social life of Scandinavian...
When Consul General Robert Piet Kisner climbed aboard the Orient Express at Paris one night last week, bound for his new post in Athens as U. S. Minister to Greece, he was performing an act of far more significance than taking a train ride. It was the first time a consular officer had proceeded to a new post without going to Washington to confer with the Department of State; furthermore, Mr. Kisner's appointment was the first important application of the Rogers Act of 1924, which combined the consular and diplomatic services into a single "Foreign Service...