Word: orientated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...history of my slave-ancestors. So I will not sing their music, nor the songs of their ancestors. . . . The trouble with the American Negro is that he has an inferiority complex. He fails to realize that he comes of a great ancestry linked with the great races of the Orient. . . . What he should do is try for 'black greatness' and not an imitation of 'white greatness.' I am more than ever convinced that the African civilization dates back to the times when Oriental culture, including that from China, began to influence the Western world. I believe...
Last April Pan American got into the Orient where competition by the airlines of Great Britain, France, Germany & Holland is particularly hot. Pan American made a partnership deal with the Chinese Nationalist Government to operate its air lines. That, plus the 2,600-mi. Alaskan system acquired last September, gives P. A. A. a doubly strategic position for trans-Pacific operations...
Doubting Pauls have been unable to comprehend that Re-Thinking Missions, published last winter by the Rockefeller-sponsored Laymen's Foreign Missions Inquiry, gave a true picture of Christianity's status in the Orient. To confirm that picture, the Inquiry last week supplied them with Volume V of its source books-a combined volume of facts on Baptist, Congregational, Dutch Reformed, Episcopalian, Methodist and Presbyterian missions in China...
...great Manhattan law firm of Cravath. de Gersdorff. Swaine & Wood, he set up an independent practice in the Philippines, bought and operated the Manila Times, was retained by many a U. S. firm, did much business in China. His special knowledge of silver and the monetary problems of the Orient accounted for his official if not his artistic presence in London...
...made and lost fortunes at the gaming table, hobnobbed with royalty, became kingpin of a polyglot community in Siberia, escaped to the U. S. ("the Contry of the Gold Devil"), where he pyramided another flimsy fortune, gradually subsided into a broken-down old panhandler in the Orient. When Authoress Benson last heard of him he was in Macao, "where, for the moment, he stands balanced, as though on a steppingstone, about to step into a new life of grand sansation...