Word: sandalwood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sumatra, oil to be drilled for in Borneo and Java, tin to be dug in Bangka. Coffee, tea, tobacco, sugar, rice are the more ordinary products; but copra as a basis for facial creams, lizard skins for shoes and handbags, Sumatra wrappers for cigars, cinchona bark for quinine, sandalwood and teakwood, ebony and macassar oil, and even the bare-breasted women of Bali, tourist paradise, do their full share in making this Netherlands overseas a going concern...
Masters & Men. Thus after monarchs, missionaries and merchants came a Montanan to join the company of rulers who have governed the Sandwich Islanders. In 1820 in the days of the sandalwood trade, when missionaries began to arrive by shiploads, the islands were ruled by the native dynasty founded by the great Kamehameha. The missionaries undertook more than the care of Polynesian souls. They became advisers and ministers to the native monarchs. Their lay offspring became merchants and, with Yankee traders who settled there, took the islands' economic upbringing firmly in hand. Thus sprang up a benevolent white aristocracy which developed...
Great Britain-India. Quids: Increased preferences on carpets, rugs, hides, jute, sandalwood oil and cotton...
Many male butterflies have the fragrance of flowers. The common orange-&-black regal fritillary, a shy little fellow, emits a strong, sweet, spicy odor resembling that of sandalwood. He feeds on the tops of red milkweeds and thistles, will flee if approached by man. The smell of the female is exceedingly nauseating. The blue butterfly smells like "newly stirred earth in spring or crushed violet stems." The lesser sulphur exudes the fragrance of dried sweet grass. The orange clover's scent resembles heliotrope. If a cloud obscures the sun it at once seeks a resting place, preferably on something...
...wrote his first play when he was 9. At 16 he was a reporter on the Baltimore American, at 19 its music critic. He was a piano salesman, law clerk, professional magician before hitting his stride as a novelist and play wright. (Plays: The Spider, Behold This Dreamer. Books: Sandalwood, Stepchild of the Moon.) Few years ago he attached himself to Publisher Macfadden, wrote The True Story of Bernarr Macfadden as a serial in Physical Culture...