Word: arabian
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...brought Miss Bell to Arabia in the service of the Empire. As a girl and woman, she, the incorrigible daughter of Sir Hugh Bell, "the richest iron master in England," had explored Arabia because, literally, she loved the sometimes childish and sometimes sublime Arabian race. Without Occidental companions, but traveling with a retinue of native servants and dining every evening in a Paris gown, Miss Bell was the first woman to cross the great Arabian Desert, and later tossed off two books* on the Near East, which Field Marshal Allenby confessed to poring over, both before and during his compaigns...
Naturally Miss Bell offered her services and proved invaluable to the Empire when the World War made it necessary for Britain to save Suez and the route to India from possible Mohammedan encroachment. Miss Bell became, to use an ugly word, a spy. She disguised herself as an Arabian, several times penetrated into Turkey, succeeded in bringing many an Arab chief, suspicious of Occidentals, into alliance with Great Britain...
...Hastings obtained from Germany a zebra stallion which he bred to white Arabian mares, percherons and common farm mares, the percherons bearing the best foals. The offspring resemble the ordinary mule in their deep chests, large necks, strong legs, but retain the gaudy stripes of their wild African forebears...
...Europe in the stages through which it has yet to pass. . . . Its narrower theme is an analysis of the decline of the culture of the West; but the goal is nothing less than the problem of civilization." Four cycles of civilization are traced-the Indian, the Antique (Greek), the Arabian and the Western (beginning with the Middle Ages). Each is divided into four seasons and studied, with Germanic thoroughness, in its religion, philosophy, art, science. The ultimate consideration is the evolution of the "morphology" of thought...
...full program follows: March, "Sambre et Mouse" Planquette-Turlet Overture to "The Merry Wives of Windsor" Nicolai Serenade Drigo Fantasia, L'Oracolo Leoni Introduction to Act III "Lohengrin" Wagner La Campanella Handel-Jacchia Preghiera von Doenhoff-Press Fourteenth Hungarian Rhapsody Liszt Ballet Suite, "Nutcracker" Tchaikovsky Trepak Arabian Dance Dance of the Penny Whistles Corloba Albeniz-Jacchia Waltz, "Pomone" Waldteufel