Word: pariahs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Matsuoka beckoned imperiously to the rest of his delegation, some members of which were known to oppose a dramatic exit. Obediently but rather slowly they rose, followed their Chief who marched firmly from the hall. In the lobbies, in the cloak room no non-Japanese spoke to Pariah Matsuoka. Impassive, he clipped a cigar, struck a match, puffed air mechanically, threw away the match, walked out unconscious that his cigar had failed to light. Cameras clicked. Cinemachines whirred. Up swept a bright limousine with the flag of the rising sun streaming from its radiator cap. Stepping in, with the cold...
...Human Bondage, it is not. Returning to that indeterminate East of which he has often yarned before, Author Maugham spins a tale that in less sardonic hands would be a melodrama. Eye-witness of the story is Dr. Saunders, an Englishman who for some English reason is a pariah to his kind and has become an opium-smoking, suspiciously bachelor dweller among Chinese. An able eye specialist, he has a large practice. On a lucrative visit to a far-away trader, he runs into two dubious Australians, gets a lift on their lugger to another island. Captain Nichols, skipper...
...recent radio talk. . . . Can the outside world expect the German people to be content with existing conditions? On the contrary there is reason for wondering that the German people bear their terrible distress so calmly and with such discipline. ... A country treated for 13 years as a pariah by the outside world simply had to forfeit the respect of its own people...
...Abruptly J. Stalin demanded more tolerance for Russia's pariah class, her "bourgeois intellectuals," the professors, industrial technicians & such left over from tsarist days, some of whom have been shot after "propaganda trials" (TIME, Dec. 8, 15; March...