Word: orientalizing
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Died. Louis Marie Julien Viaud, pen name Pierre Loti, 73, French novelist, sculptor, painter, musician, naval officer, at Hendaye, France. He travelled widely, particularly in the Orient...
...most encouraging bids were for the Pacific Coast-to-Orient trade. Two lines, the Pacific Mail and the Admiral Line (in which Robert Dollar is interested), each bid to buy its own route and that operated by the other. There were also several bids for the South American trade, and others for East Indian and Mediterranean routes. The United American Lines (of which W. A. Harriman is Chairman) are understood to be making overtures for the purchase of five of the Board's large Atlantic passenger liners: the Leviathan, George Washington, America, President Buchanan, President Roosevelt...
...Pacific, he said his company has now only two ships operating to the Orient. On the Atlantic there are only 14 privately owned passenger ships and 22 freighters now operating, aside from those engaged in the island trade?a condition no better than before the war. He asserted that American shippers must combine to remove the discriminating measures, in order to restore the flags of privately owned American Merchantmen to the high seas...
...latest tennis star to arrive in America seeking the Davis Cup is Masamosuke Fukuda, of the Japanese team. Fukuda, recent graduate of Waseda University, is described as a " sensation" on the courts of the Orient. His euphonious name completes an exotic array of players who will contend in the Davis Cup lists this year. The following are culled from the rosters of the French, Indian and Japanese teams: Henri Cochet, Jean Borotra, Lacoste, Fyzee Ramaswami, Ranga Rao, Jaga, Mohan Lai, Zenzo Shimidzu...
...married a Hollander, an official in the East Indies. To Java she went to preside over a satrap's strange eastern household. She lived there for several years. As a powerful white functionary's wife, she moved as a great person among the potentates of the oriental island. She tells of living as an honored guest in the harem of the Sultan of Solo. The orient entered her spirit. Of course, she studied the strange and subtle music of the Javanese. She returned to the West, to America, and re-began the career that her marriage had broken...