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Word: wildwest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1939-1939
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When at last the correspondents coaxed skeptical Chinese to take them to the front in a quiet sector, "we found ourselves discussing the poetry of Robert Bridges. The Testament of Beauty can seldom have been quoted in less appropriate surroundings." In China's wildwest Sian, they met a Swiss doctor who had attended D. H. Lawrence. Back in Hankow, a Chinese lady gave them a lacquer box containing an ivory skull for Virginia Woolf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Bad Earth | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

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