Word: petaled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...PETAL-OF-THE-ROSE - Charles Pettit- Liveright...
...unlike Ernest Bramah's tales of Kai Lung, in its lacquered language of excessive pseudo-Oriental politeness, unlike them in the faintly lickerish tinge of the narrative, Petal-of-the-Rose gives about as realistic a picture of China as a musi-comedy does of life, affords much the same kind of titillating entertainment...