Word: spiced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Doubleday, Doran ($3). To write this historical romance Author Costain, a Doubleday editor, read or consulted over 500 books, hired a Chinese scholar and a research worker who could read medieval Latin and French. The background is laid in the murky, turgid England of Roger Bacon, the fabulous silk-&-spice Orient of Kublai Khan. An impoverished young bastard of noble blood leaves Oxford to seek his fortune in far Cathay. Here he meets the Khan's famed general, Bayan of the Hundred Eyes, and forgets the haughty girl at home in favor of the harem slave, Maryam, daughter...
...America? There are a dozen essential faiths. From New England may have come our faith in good morals; but New York gave us our tolerance, Pennsylvania our faith in justice, the South our proud independence, the Middle West our practical realism, the Far West our belief in the impossible. Spice all this with a flavor of cynicism and humanitarianism from the Jews, humor and hotheadedness from the Irish, sex and sophistication from the French and sentimentality and love of comfort from the old-fashioned Germans, and you have a rough outline of essential Americanism. It is a lot bigger than...
...citizens are thinking about. Reason: to move his two prize horses (see cut) Senator Morse drove the 3,310 miles from his Oregon ranch in a 1941 Ford, towing a four-wheeled trailer. The trailer contained an ironing board, boxes of jelly & jam, an electric toaster and the horses, "Spice of Life" and "Oreganna Bourbon...
...William F. ("Bull") Halsey's Third Fleet flyers ranged over thousands of square miles of the central and southern Philippines, knocked out 501 of the Jap's fast-disappearing planes-more even than the 420 wiped out in the Battle of the Philippine Sea last June. As spice for this performance, Halsey's flyers damaged or sank all of 173 ships ranging from big cargo carriers to light coastal vessels. Then the double blow struck...
...Spice has that long winded appeal. See Nai La Rocca for application details on stationery...