Word: basra
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...almost any dainty faucet, bathroom jigger or giant sewer valve is apt to bear the impress CRANE. Therefore it was matter of interest and concern to millions when, last week, the automobile of Charles Richard Crane was savagely fired upon by Arabian bandits, 60 miles south of Basra, Irak...
Once upon a time Sindbad the Sailor set out on his Arabian Nights adventures from Basra. With Mr. Crane in Basra were his son John and the Rev. Henry A. Bilkerd, a Reformed Church missionary from Kalamazoo, Mich. They planned to set off at dawn for the Sultanate of Kuwait, 85 miles distant, despite the fact that nomadic and warlike subjects of the Great Sultan Ibn Saud of Nejd and the Hejaz were thought to be marauding not far off. Apparently Mr. Crane judged that his party would be safe, and with the best reason: in 1926 Sultan Ibn Saud...
Late that night the Crane car reached Basra again, bullet-riddled, bearing a dead man. Straight to the U. S. Consulate went the Friend of Small Peoples, and there he gravely told what had occurred...
Jews, Moslems and Christians attended the slain missionary's funeral, at Basra, last week, stared sympathetically at his young wife and four children...
...From Basra, Irak, they followed along the River Euphrates and in the early evening flew above the flat country to Aleppo. At Aleppo, they rested long enough to remember seeing a pretty girl, whose name they would never learn, standing in the amazed crowd that watched them fly away...