Word: arabian
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Karachi is a seaport on the Arabian Sea. It is the terminus of the London-India air mail and many industries are sprouting there...
Thrilled not only by best Russian bells but by best Arabian coffee, best Confucian music, and by all the exotic bests which the East has to offer, is President Lowell's great & good friend Charles Richard Crane, onetime President of Chicago's potent Crane (plumbing) Co., onetime U. S. Minister to China (1920-21). When the Harvard publicity office divulged that Harvard's Russian bells are "the gift of a member of the Crane family," there could be no doubt as to which Crane was meant...
...ocean liners and near airplane routes, its 300,000 sandy square miles have challenged and beaten back explorers since the Middle Ages. No European had seen its mysterious, lethal interior until this winter hardy Englishman Bertram Thomas trekked 900 mi. across its arid wastes, from Dhofar on the Arabian Sea to Dohah on the Persian Gulf, where he emerged last week and told his story...
...working with Walter Ruttmann (who made for The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari expressionistic sets never surpassed in the cinema) spent three years on The Adventures of Prince Achmed. The story is tenuous. Achmed makes love, goes to war, combats a sorcerer in settings and among characters taken from the Arabian Nights. Aladdin is there, though now he has to light his lamp instead of rubbing it to summon genii. There are the Sultan, the Magic Horse, the fairy Peri-Banov, the Princess Dinarzade. Like contortionism and sword-swallowing, the picture is remarkable principally because its technique was difficult...
...Yemen (Amkino). This is an example of an elementary and important use of the camera too rarely attempted by U. S. producers: straightforward reporting. It is not a thrilling picture; it is interesting?a description of life in an independent state in the southwest corner of the Arabian Peninsula. It was made by representatives of the German and Soviet governments on a special expedition...