Word: exoticism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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As one who has perspired in Brazil for the last 22 years, this exotic lady is well known to me, and there can be no doubt as to her Brazilian nationality and the fact that she speaks and sings in Portuguese (of the Brazilian variety).
>Exotic Myrna Loy made a better wife than a siren.
In part, Author Thorp thinks, the result is educational. "The new rich . . . wanted to know all about high-powered cars, airplanes, ocean liners, yachts, villas, exotic food, wine, jewels, Paris dresses, perfect servants; and De Mille told them."
Since his fiancée died of a badly diagnosed appendicitis, stern Surgeon Forster (Akim Tamiroff) has lived for science, not for sentiment. His efforts to hew Dr. Beaven (John Howard) in his own grim image are upset when the younger physician meets exotic, black-banged, slitherish Audrey (Dorothy Lamour...
Sinkiang Province (area: 705,769 sq. mi.; population: 4,360,000), sometimes called Chinese Turkestan, is a fairly rich, comparatively unexploited, thoroughly exotic area. Its principal exports have been wool, camel's-hair, sheep guts, gold, jade, fine horses, Chinese medicinal ingredients (elk horn, saiga antelope horn, bears'...