Word: bab
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...friend in the airmail service he and Capt. Corniglion Molinier, army pilot, took off from Paris for Djibouti, bent on finding the capital of the dusky queen of Biblical legend. Last week's meager reports indicated that the two men flew from Djibouti across the Strait of Bab-el-Mandeb and 900 mi. northeast into the Great Arabian Desert, almost to the Persian Gulf; that they found walled ruins in such a hilly terrain they dared not land and returned non-stop to Djibouti; that they would attempt the trip again. Unknown to history, even in legend the Queen...
...Wearing a green shirt, Poet Sohrab stood behind a small table upon which were three candles signifying: The Bab, martyred prophet of the Baha'i Movement; Baha-U-Llah, the Founder; Abdul Baha the Expounder & Promoter...
Married. Natica Nast, daughter of Publisher Conde Nast (Vogue, Vanity Fair, House & Garden); and Gerald F. Warburg, second son of Banker Felix M. Warburg (Kuhn, Loeb & Co.), grandson of the late Jacob H. Schiff; in Manhattan. Mr. Warburg was lately divorced in Reno by Marion Bab Warburg...
Meantime, Admiral Standley will be transferred from the command of the cruiser division of the Scouting Force, normally based on the Atlantic Coast but for the past year lingering in the Pacific, to command the Battle Force. Like famed Captain Reece, R. N. of the Bab Ballads, Admiral Standley says he pays more attention to personnel than to technical affairs. ''I am interested in everything that concerns my officers...
Across the street from the Temple of Light is the Sheridan Shore Yacht Club, a convivial organization which occupies the basement of Architect Benjamin Howard Marshall's gay pink house. So quietly, bothering no one, does Baha'i meet, that last week's celebration of the Bab's martyrdom (with readings and prayers led by Mrs. Corrine True of Wilmette) went quite unnoticed by the yachtsmen...