Word: alexandria
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...route to France aboard the little steamship Sphynx, General Maurice Sarrail, the recalled French High Commander to Syria (TIME, Nov. 9), employed a graceful and evasive "formula" for sidestepping ail questions regarding his much criticized bombardment of Damascus. Said he to correspondents who boarded the Sphynx at Alexandria, "Surely you need not question me, gentlemen. Let the Sphynx answer. Look around the boat and you will find many sources of truth...
...Patriarch of Alexandria, the Metropolitan of Sofia (Bulgaria) bowed their gray heads in reverent appreciation...
Some time ago one Herbert S. Ward, government employe, was sent to Alexandria (in Virgina, across the Potomac, scarcely six or eight miles from Washington). He did his business and spent $1.50 for lunch. He put in a bill for his lunch money. Controller General McCarl, -"watchdog of the Federal Treasury," refused to pay thebill, contending that Ward had not been sent "traveling away from his post of duty" within the meaning of the statute...
...theme etched a contrast between old church councils which debated dogma and this conference which concerned itself with the practical good which Christianity should attempt to achieve in the world today; his crescendo, "the sovereignty of Jesus in everything pertaining to human affairs." The Patriarch of Alexandria uttered the benediction...
...hour or so after the second attack, Lord Balfour was spirited from the spot in a high-powered automobile and only reappeeared at Beirut, where he boarded the ship Sphinx which was bound for Alexandria, Egypt...