Word: arabian
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...When the Arabian Nights year of 1929 was making millionaires out of boot-blacks, I had lost my reputation, my wife, my child, my home and my fortune and was skating on the thin edge of personal bankruptcy. All I had left was my mother." In a book called The Voice of Young America, he attacked U. S. business methods, advocated a better distribution of wealth. "It's the same old story. ... I myself had lain with trouble. That is why I changed...
...liked to fish, to ride his two Arabian thoroughbreds. Ungovernably hospitable, he loved to have his friends play on his night-lighted tennis court, to take them riding in his Bellanca monoplane (formerly belonging to Actress Ann Harding), to take them to Eureka to see his 101 Ranch show (bought from Zack Miller a few months ago), to find them jobs when they were out of work. All Emporia's colored people swore by him for his generosity. He drove a flock of cars headed by a Fierce-Arrow. When his little girl had pneumonia, he sent...
...died out. Hunter thinks its spring "sing" as exciting as Vassar's Daisy Chain or Smith's Rally Day. Girls from each class gather in the Metropolitan Opera House, wearing costumes, and compete with serious and comic songs based on central themes like Mother Goose or the Arabian Nights...
...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 of build and face, with near Hitlerian mustache, Traveler Seabrook looks hopelessly lethargic...
These tales of terror, thirty-six pages long if you paid sixpence, seventy if a shilling, were on everything from a "Shocking Instance of Arabian Jealousy" to "The Cross of Christ," all rife with much the same sort of atmosphere, thrills and shocks. Most of them had castles with ghostly portrait galleries, musty, deserted wings where mysterious manuscripts telling of some "awful" murder or horrible deed were discovered. The heroine is beautiful, but elusive. "Her mind is . . . like a jewel contained in a most beautiful casket." The hero is a brunette; and like the protagonists in Horatio Alger stories...