Word: bells
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Miss Gertrude Bell died last week. When Death entered her low, rambling, exquisitely luxurious home in Bagdad, Great Britain lost the most remarkable and certainly the most charming woman who has served the Empire in a century. Middleaged, but slender and quick as a girl, she was by title only Oriental secretary to Sir Henry Dobbs, British High Commissioner to Irak. Actually Sir Henry, King Faisal of Irak, and Premier Abdul Mushsin Beg al Ga'dun, deferred consistently to her as the most brilliant and profound feminine apostle of Anglo-Mesopotamian concord who ever lived. The kingdom of Irak...
...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...
...Miss Bell, no less an inspired genius, retained her grip. Though she blew up no bridges, conquered no cities, she was ready to take up the task of putting on its feet the revamped kingdom of Irak- Irak, key to the Transjordanian route to India...
...down. The Italian got up. Kaplan administered a long left hook. The Italian fell down, got up. Kaplan applied an other left to the body. The Italian fell down. It was obvious that he could rise no more, but at that instant the loud and insistent ringing of a bell informed his sup porters that the round was over and that it behooved them to purvey their battered advocate to his cor ner. In the ninth round Kaplan knocked him down three times, and once more in the tenth. The referee, seeing that Garcia was al ready rising...