Word: camel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fujiyama to Japanese, a small black meteor head-high in the southeast corner of a rough stone building called the Kaaba in Mecca is to Mohammedans. Every Moslem plans someday to make the hajj, or pilgrimage, to kiss this most sacred of all objects, the Black Stone. On camel, burro, foot and occasionally hands & knees, some 70,000 devotees annually make the hajj over the desert sands to Mecca. Last week, fat, wealthy Mussulmen loath to subject themselves to such a hot, dusty, brigand-infested journey had for the first time a better means of travel. From Cairo, Misr Airwork...
...Libel-of-the-year, the unfortunate color photograph of Gentleman Jockey Crawford Burton advertising Camel cigarets (TIME, Jan. 18) was completely settled last month when, after winning a $2,500 verdict against Crowell Publishing Co., Mr. Burton accepted $22,500 to square accounts with R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., its advertising agency and all publications against which suits have been brought. Still pending, however, was Jockey Burton's $50,000 action against Funnyman Eddie Davis of a Manhattan night club for using a reproduction of the picture in a ribald Christmas card...
...advertising sensation of 1934 was the color photograph of Gentleman Jockey Crawford Burton, twice winner of the dangerous Maryland Hunt Cup, posing in his racing silks as an endorser of Camel cigarets' recuperative powers. By a horrible mischance, the photograph of Mr. Burton, holding his saddle and girth, reproduced in such a manner that to a prurient or imaginative eye it appeared to show Mr. Burton indecently exposed as only a man could be exposed...
...Burton, the so-called and self-styled gentleman rider has finally won damages for the photograph of him that they published and that embarrassed him so much. Mr. Burton got it both coming and going, after he had sold his manly body, clad in his brilliant silks, to the Camel cigarette people for the pittance...
...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...