Word: arabia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Excited book-boomers have compared this unusual biography to James Boswell's Life of Johnson, to Herman Melvill's Moby Dick, to Charles Montagu Doughty's Arabia Deserta. The Book of Talbot is a biography of a comparatively unknown man written by his widow. Gravely, not to say solemnly told, it is sometimes pompous but never inane. Authoress Clifton's fierce reverence for her subject does at times succeed in making her manner grand...
Meanwhile dashing Col. Hubert Fauntleroy Julian, "Black Eagle of Harlem," who in 1924 cracked up in Flushing Bay en route to Liberia, announced new plans. On Sept. 15, said the Colonel, he will take off from Floyd Bennett Field on a 7,500-mi. non-stop flight to Aden, Arabia. He secured for the flight a Diesel-powered Bellanca, named it Patience...
...nine months at the University of Geneva, returned to the U. S. to go into advertising. Private in the French Army during the War, he was gassed at Verdun. After the War he started writing in Manhattan. One evening in 1924 he met an Arab, shortly afterwards went to Arabia for 15 months among the Bedouins and Druses of the Arabian mountains. Sympathetically curious if not credulously enthusiastic about magic, he went to Haiti for a year to find out about voodoo. He has also visited whirling dervishes at their monastery in Tripoli, Yezidi devil-worshipers in Kurdistan. Tall, heavy...
...family name was Lawrence; to Arab warriors he was Aurans, Emir Dinamit, ''the World's Imp"; newspaper Warwicks dubbed him "the uncrowned King of Arabia"; some of his immediate superiors in the British Army called him every epithet in the calendar; now he answers only to his legally changed name of "Shaw." An archeologist of the first rank, he is now a mechanic and "the associate of menials"; once a colonel, he is now, by choice, a private; with a reputation that could still be cashed in for much fine gold, he is content with his army pittance of 60?...
...Wadi Safra?" Said Lawrence: "Well; but it is far from Damascus." The story of the Arab revolt and Lawrence's part in it is now history. He and Feisal took to each other immediately; so did he and Auda, sheik of the Abu Tayi Howeitat, most famed fighter in Arabia, who had killed 75 men in battle, "not counting Turks." First merely a liaison officer, Lawrence's powers increased with his achievements until at the end of the War he was practically directing the Arab irregulars who helped General Allenby roll the Turks out of Palestine. Before...