Word: amazonian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Plantation rubber from the British and Dutch possessions in the Far East broke Brazil's virtual rubber monopoly and burst her rubber boom in 1910. Only recently has Henry Ford stirred Brazilian hopes of reviving the good old rubber days, by leasing over 3,000,000 Amazonian acres on which Fordized rubber plantations are being started. Some wild rubber is still gathered on the upper tributaries of the Amazon. Notably a ferocious and somewhat mysterious Italian who calls himself "The King of the Xingu" has terrorized and virtually enslaved several tribes on the Xingu River who now meekly gather...
...most versatile of living English scientists, Dr. McGovern is not only famous for important Amazonian explorations, but is still more renowned as the first white man to penetrate into Lhasa, the "Forbidden City" of Tibet. As a lecturer he stood in the front ranks in the Oxford Union, and has addressed the leading British societies...
...certain semi-authenticated episodes, Anni Prachtel and a few cynics remain dubious of the annual parthenogenesis. But they preserve the myth, and five years after the first crop of childen, the virgin mothers feel so self-sufficient that the disposal of male offsprings is an issue. Some are for Amazonian exposure on the mountains, some for the method that elevates voices and renders docile. Instead, compassion prevailing, an isolation colony, Manland, is formed under Phaon's governance; and here, while the maidens of lie des Dames grow up in an atmosphere of chaste fertility, vestal visions (including a unicorn...
Sport like Education has become the privilege of proletarians, as it was once of the bourgeoisie and the artistocracy. Rowing has attained great popularity for both sexes. The observant traveler is apt to be particularly struck by young Amazonian working girls, who slather up and down the Moscow River, with nothing on but a red kerchief, a rowing shirt, and a pair of blue trunks...
Captain Ludovici is answered in much the same vein from a far-flung Anglo-Amazonian outpost by the second wife of the Hon. Bertrand Arthur William Russell, lately-retired scholar of Cambridge University...