Word: camel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...case he misses. His black boy will have a hot bath and a cold drink ready at the finish of a day's hunting. The only things the sportsman is advised to bring to Africa with him are: dinner jacket, Springfield rifle & ammunition, alligator raincoat, chamois windbreaker. camel's hair jacket, light polo coat for chilly evenings, camera & films, light, ankle-high walking boots...
...wellbeing, having been gassed while behind an A. E. F. machine gun. This experience, plus his instinct for broad-gauge ballyhoo, has made him a modern reincarnation of the oldtime medicine show "doctor." The therapeutic qualities he first discovered in his cigaret program ("Get a Lift With a Camel") are now to be noted in tea. If the $500,000 test campaign shows results after a year, Mr. Esty confidently expects to develop a tea account which will run into major money...
Degiac Kassa and General Mariotti thought alike. Before the General was able to unlimber his camel guns, volley upon volley of rifle fire echoed from the cliffs. Skirmish lines went out, runners raced for munitions, support. Colonel Belli, the General's second-in-command, ran forward to help the mountain battery, got bullets in a hand and knee...
From there the outfit went to Glen Island, the Essex House, and the Camel Caravan in the ether. Success has been meteoric since then...
Long-heralded Italian drives got under way fortnight ago on the Northern Front and Southern Front, but orders which considerably mystified correspondents last week stopped both in their tracks. At the headquarters of Old de Bono rumors were thicker than gnats. Some correspondents cabled that a camel corps of 20,000 men was being organized in the southwestern corner of Eritrea for a dash, not at any of the main Ethiopian positions but at Britain's "sphere of influence" in the general direction of Lake Tana...