Word: tibet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...FitzPatrick returned from Spain with his first travelogues. Since that time the nasal narration of the Traveltalks has continued almost unchanged through Benares, the Hindu Heaven, Bali, the Island Paradise, Tibet, Land of Isolation. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer rates FitzPatrick as a producer. His films cost about $15,000 apiece...
...Serious rioting in Tibet...
...with bronze. Lily Pons was born 36 years ago in Cannes, in the south of France, was named Alice Joséphine by her Italian mother and French father. Papa Pons was an automobile engineer who once attempted to drive from Paris to Peiping. After nearly starving in Tibet, he was towed into China...
...mortgaged his soul, it is because he has been hypnotized by fascinating visions of genuine, hand-woven Cashmere which comes only from India, Tibet and China; of sheep which live in the outer Hebrides on the Isles of Harris and Lewis, from which must come all real, native-spun yarns for tweeds. It is because he has known the mysteries of the notch lapel, the peak lapel and the semi-drape lapel. . . because he has heard tales to the effect that side-vents were originally made for grouse shooting, and has dreamed of fine virgin wool that has been stored...
Government. Too sickly to attend school, he was tutored in Turkish and in military strategy by a disinherited German nobleman-cowboy; a Turkish scholar taught him Asiatic lore. Thus primed, in 1935 Hathaway went to Bombay, thence to Tibet and Turkestan, where he fought with a bloodthirsty Mohammedan chieftain against the Bolsheviks. Captured, he spent 116 days in solitary confinement in a Soviet prison, made his lucky exit via the Gobi desert to Shanghai. Whatever the facts of his curious adventures, Author "Ramal" is a vivid writer, nearly rivals the fantastic imaginings of Frederic Prokosch's The Asiatics...