Word: algerians
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...upon which France has strung like so many pearls her overseas colonies. Muddy, reeking with pungent coffee and spices and exceedingly popular are the North African bazaars whose keepers seem to scream and haggle the loudest when not flattering and blandishing the most seductively. Especially beautiful are the Moroccan, Algerian and Tunisian quarters with their tinkling fountains, warmly atmospheric patios, fakirs and camels. On hot days, Equatorial and Occidental African craftsmen were stinking convincingly last week as they fashioned their wares amid incipient squalor which seemed to make them more at home at the Exposition each day. Biggest...
...April 22, 1915 a brisk wind was blowing from the German lines in the Ypres sector toward the trenches held by French and Algerian troops. Shortly after 5 p. m. the Allied soldiers saw a sinister greenish cloud rolling toward them across No Man's Land. Some of them broke and ran; thousands stuck to their posts or fled too late. Soon the trenches were heaped with gasping, choking, dying men. The gas was chlorine, 168 tons of which were released that day from 5,730 cylinders over a four-mile front. There were 15,000 casualties including...
Main thing Domini and Boris have in common, conveniently for Producer Selznick's cameras, is a wish to see the desert. They do it in a caravan whose manager is a bubbling young Algerian named Batouch (Joseph Schildkraut). Tripping about the North Sahara they enjoy life to the full until one night a French Army officer, lost with his troop, happens on their camp. When Batouch brings in a bottle of the Trappist liqueur Lagarnine, the officer remembers where he has met Boris before. Without so much as saying, "It's a small world after all," he goes...
...Abbot dressed up an astrophysical lecture in Rochester a few months ago. At that event learned Dr. Abbot, 64, told how a policeman once tried to arrest lanky Marine Biologist William Beebe for probing in a snow bank for a dead goldfish. He gave a whistling imitation of an Algerian shepherd boy whom he once heard while searching Algeria for a cloudless site for a solar observatory. He concluded with a baritone rendition of a sea ditty about "a ship that went for to sail with a whale at its tail...
...heroes were six a penny after Lepanto. Cervantes was glad to be sailing home again, even with no greater reward than letters of recommendation from his general. It took him more than five years to get there. On the voyage they were captured by Algerian pirates, and Cervantes' prized letters got him the uncomfortable honor of being held for an impossibly high ransom. Back in Spain he found various ways of nearly starving, loved a slut who left him, married a slattern whom he gladly left. As a middle-aged tax collector for Philip's insatiable treasury Cervantes...