Word: womanizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Incredibly, Robert College survived and flourished. It found rich U. S. patrons, notably the late Cleveland H. Dodge. Other U. S. educational ventures sprang up in the Near East-Istanbul Woman's College, International College at Izamir, American University of Beirut, American College of Sofia, Athens College. Slowly Near Easterners overcame their fixed idea that all foreign ventures in their lands were for purposes of political or commercial advantage. In time the U. S. colleges, independent but banded together since 1919 in the Near East College Association, were acclaimed as brilliant beacons in the Near East march toward Western...
...profitable Derby winner, further prophecies are all of death. His wife (Fay Wray) begins to think he is going mad and the public begins to think he is a menace. A solution, however, is handy. His clairvoyance possesses him only when he is in the presence of another woman (Jane Baxter), who serves as his "battery," charging him with psychic powers. When she retires from his life, he loses his uncomfortable knack of scooping the world on bad news...
...tuition and board fee of $450 per year is a sum which only fairly rich Turks can afford. Hence the college draws its Turkish clientele largely from the prosperous middleclass, which wants its sons trained for business or engineering. The Turkish upper crust may send its daughters to Istanbul Woman's College for culture but in general it sends its sons to Istanbul's ancient native university, Galata Serai. Bulgarians, on the other hand, who have drawn a Premier, two front-rank diplomats and many another leader from the college's alumni, regard Robert as an immensely...
Last week Robert's sprightlier spirits gained a friend when Walter Livingston ("Livy") Wright Jr. accepted the joint presidency of Robert and Istanbul Woman's Colleges. Simultaneously Princeton lost one of its best-liked, most scholarly professors, raised its list of alumni heading Near East educational institutions...
...writers, Lafcadio Hearn has never been widely read, nor has his strange career been fully and deeply explored. Of Greek and Irish descent, blind in one eye, Hearn arrived in New York in 1869. Later he lived in Cincinnati where he became involved in a scandal with a mulatto woman; in New Orleans where he won a small reputation as a scholar and journalist; in the West Indies, where he renounced Western civilization. In 1890 he settled in Japan, married a member of a distinguished Samurai family, became a Japanese citizen and professor of English literature at the Imperial University...