Word: camels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nufud, whose red sands, "saturated with sunshine," looked as if they had been covered with crimson silk. They hunted panther and ostrich, saw gazelles, outrode a prolonged sandstorm that nearly killed them all. Carl Raswan studied desert customs, developed an affection for the noble, helpless, panicky, good-natured camel, learned to eat locust, which he liked roasted but not boiled...
...forward by Mr. Lyons last week, soldierly Sir Alexander Hore-Ruthven, brother of the ninth Baron Ruthven whose Scottish title dates from 1487. Sir Alexander was born in George Windsor's name town, Windsor, schooled at Eton across the Thames, decorated by Queen Victoria for bravery as a camel corps commander in the Sudan, and sent to Australia by King Edward as Military Secretary to its Governor General in 1908. Desperately wounded at Gallipoli, he received the D. S. O. from King George, went out as Governor of South Australia in 1928, and since 1934 has been Governor...
...Through the eye of a needle can pass Collector Charbneau's ivory camel...
...into the blood stream where it becomes available for work, pleasure or refreshment. R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. focused the magnifying eye of its advertising department upon that minuscule chip in the large mosaic of scientific facts about tobacco, burst forth with this advice: "Get a Lift with a Camel...
...Haggard & Greenberg had not reasoned so far. And Dr. McCormick decided that Camel advertising, which no longer uses the "Lift" slogan, was presumptuous. A non-smoker himself, Dr. McCormick bought nine Flemish Giant hares, had two senior medical students from the University of Toronto poison them with nicotine. The nicotine dissolved out of a single cigaret soaked in water is enough to make a grown man deathly sick. The solution of three cigarets will throw an adult into such convulsions that he will probably die within 15 minutes. Eight of Dr. McCormick's hares died of nicotine poisoning...