Word: orientalizing
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Great was the commotion in San Francisco harbor last week as the Dollar liner President Pierce glided in through the Golden Gate from the Orient. Whistles screamed. Bands blared. Flags flew. Warped into Pier 44, she was quickly boarded by octogenarian Shipowner Robert Dollar who hurried about looking for an erect, spare, tropic-tanned man. He found him on deck, carrying a tightly rolled silk umbrella, and gave him a tremendous handshake which carried with it the welcome of the whole U.S. The browned voyager was none other than Henry Lewis Stimson, returning from the post of Governor-General...
...their contract with their men are very interesting. Men must be American citizens, twenty-one years of age or over, and unmarried. It is understood that the first term is for three years, during which time a man does not marry and goes to such parts of the Orient as may be determined by the Company. At the end of three years he has an extended furlough, is permitted to visit the United States, and in many cases men on such furloughs cease to be bachelors...
Constantinople may soon be the Detroit of the Orient. For the Turkish Government has granted to Henry Ford a 25-year concession by which he may erect a Constantinople plant for assembling automobiles, trucks, tractors, planes. Ford must use Turkish coal, Turkish workmen...
...political jealousy put him out of office. Bitterly disappointed, he died in sorrow, little guessing that it would be said of him: "Confucius is China." But such is Author Beck's opinion. Best known for her biographies (by "E. Barrington"), she has long been a student of the Orient. Her present volume is avowedly "popular," readable; but the interpretation is sound, the information valuable...
...Shih, whose contribution to the symposium, is among the very best of the sixteen contributions, disclaims the spirituality of the Orient, often sweepingly exhibited as an ideal of a more untrammeled civilization, and asks "What spirituality is there in a civilization that tolerates such a terrible form of human slavery as the ricksha Coolie...