Word: orients
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...less pungent "Ginger Group" composed of exceedingly ambitious and snappy young men who have been jumped sensationally to high promotions in the Japanese Diplomatic Service over the dismayed and hoary heads of venerable superiors who would like to know what Japan and respect for age in the Orient are coming...
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...
...Chinese cue was forced on the Chinese 292 years ago by their Manchu conquerors as a badge of subjection. Last December one of the last old-fashioned cues in the Orient, dangling from the head of the Inner Mongol leader, Prince Te,* Prince of West Sunit, bobbed in puppet subjection to gifts of Japanese cash & guns. The Prince declared Inner Mongolia independent of the Chinese Government at Nanking...
...house; they know all about him. In a flashback to the past, the story tells why. Karen is young, beautiful, intelligent, one of an English family so aristocratic that it can afford not to be snobbish. She is engaged to just the right man; he has gone to the Orient on business for several months. Karen has a French friend, Naomi, of the governess type; she too is just engaged. Karen knows and dislikes the fiance, Max, an intense French Jew, does not want to see him again, but Naomi insists. When Karen and Max meet once more...