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...camp after dark, found the next morning that they had slept almost beside the spring they were trying to find. Shorty believed that Death Valley got so hot that gas rose out of the ground. He said the ducks carried canteens when they flew over it. Travel ing by burro, the slowest method of transportation known to man, he was al ways in a great hurry to get from one desolate point to another just as desolate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Gold & Death | 12/14/1936 | See Source »

...July 24, 1922 Seattle witnessed a memorable wedding. A thousand spectators were present in Woodland Park Zoo. The city's Nile Temple of the Mystic Shrine had outdone itself in pageantry. In first, attended by a burro named Nazimova, marched Potentate, young male camel lately imported from Shanghai by Shriner Hugh Caldwell, onetime Mayor of Seattle. He was joined by Nile, a female camel also brought from Shanghai by the Shrine, attended by a pony named Marguerite. When Imperial Potentate James McCandless of Hawaii pronounced them camel & wife, Potentate turned, gravely munched Nile's topknot bouquet of sweet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Potentate's End | 11/30/1936 | See Source »

...help it and who cover vast acres of plaster with humorless protests against the bitter plight of the masses. Artist Hidalgo hates parties, is intensely serious, neither drinks nor smokes, works ten hours a day, owns only one suit of clothes, and has traveled by ox cart, automobile and burro in every state in the Federation studying the Indians of his land. Professionally he is a humorist. His little wax figures, never more than six inches high, are shown in box frames of glittering tin that the artist makes himself. They have little or no social message...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Encausticist | 2/10/1936 | See Source »

Early one morning in Denver last week, President Ralph Budd of Chicago, Burlington & Quincy R. R., Manufacturer Edward Gowan Budd (no kin), many a Burlington and Budd technician, 20 newshawks and one burro boarded Burlington's silvery new high-speed Diesel-powered train. A full third of the way across the continent in Chicago that day, A Century of Progress was opening for its second year. Clackety-clack-streamlined, shovel-nosed Zephyr slid out of the Denver yards at 6.05 a. m. While passengers settled themselves in its three articulated compartments. Zephyr picked up speed. For a while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATES & CITIES: Second Year | 6/4/1934 | See Source »

...fort or shrieking off into Havana's residential district thousands of yards beyond with most embarrassing results. But soon they dropped shell after shell into the fort. With cannon, anti-aircraft and machine guns the rebels replied, scored their greatest success by smashing a field gun on Burro Hill, mile and a half away, with two shots from a little one-pounder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Siege of Atares | 11/20/1933 | See Source »

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