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Word: camels (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...crossed the Ossetian Road on horseback. My dear, have you ever ridden in a Caucasian saddle? It's got a ridge as sharp as a roof. I had a pair of camel's hair breeches-have you ever worn camel's hair pants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Soviets Prefer Brunettes | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

Last week at London, Richard Joshua Reynolds, 23, son of the late founder of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Camel cigarets, etc.), was found guilty of killing a man while drunk and driving his motor car. The court sentenced him to five months' light imprisonment for manslaughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Drunkenness | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

...CAMEL THROUGH THE NEEDLE'S EYE-A Theatre Guild success story with naughty Viennese overtones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Best Plays in Manhattan: Jul. 29, 1929 | 7/29/1929 | See Source »

...Indian, Chinese. It is played by an orchestra, on reeds, on drums and a solo saxophone. It shows settings of the Khyber Pass, London, San Francisco, the Sudanese desert. It records the whirr of airplane propellers and another noise which sounds a good deal the same but is only camel-neighing. It contains love scenes, whiskey-drinking, and such lines as ''We are two dots in the loneliness" and "The night by the oasis when I read in your eyes." The cast, especially Gilbert Emery as one of those film detectives who combine social welfare work with their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Jul. 15, 1929 | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

Died. Clarence F. Underwood, 58, of Manhattan, famed commercial artist (Palmolive girl, Camel girl); in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jun. 24, 1929 | 6/24/1929 | See Source »

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