Word: orientals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...house was quiet. Mr. Doell went through the carefully furnished rooms on the lower floor. Without pausing to admire the objets d'art from the Orient and the Near East, Mr. Doell mounted the stairs. Through the open door of a bedroom he noted a rumpled bed, a blue bathrobe flung carelessly over it, on the floor a pair of men's large bedroom slippers. He peeked into a study packed with books, filing cabinets, a globe. On the floor an Assyrian water pipe, two-thirds-filled, caught...
...Ambassadorial scale has increased tremendously-so much that only London and Paris now rank them. There are good reasons. Britain, France, Germany and, to a lesser extent, Russia have all turned Westward. Of important powers, only Japan and the U. S. are just now conspicuously active in the Orient. Masters of the East and West shores of the Pacific, they are natural opponents. One of them is big, rich, complacent, lazy, subject to delayed reflexes; the other small, inordinately ambitious, troubled with intellectual cramps and an inferiority complex. The big fellow, slow as he is, has finally begun to realize...
...resist. If you live in a firetrap, Nelson Johnson might say, and the apartment of the two people across the hall catches fire, you don't go on reading that romantic novel; you get busy. Occidentals want to go on hearing the sweet music of trade in the orient. For the time being, Nelson Trusler Johnson must bear the White Man's baton...
...Tokyo, members of the Japanese Whiskers Club held their semi-annual meeting, toasted Naosaburo Kato (left, in cut), claimant to the title of Longest Beard in the Orient...
...interests lie in a balance of power between China and Japan so that we won't be endangered by Japanese expansion, because a strong and free China will preserve stability in the Orient." Fairbank asserted...