Word: camels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...made to squat in the marshes, by the duck ponds, silently meditating (a practice he still pursues). When Seiho Takeuchi decided that Hori knew enough of the plumage, the habits, the anatomy, the temperament of ducks he was allowed to begin painting on silk panels with a camel's hair brush, not with oil paints, but with Chinese ink or Sumi...
There is practically no drinking among women but they smoke profusely. Although surprisingly good Russian cigarettes can be purchased with foreign money, the Russians themselves cannot get good tobacco with their rubles and are delighted to obtain American cigarettes. Their unusual fondness for Camels makes it seem at first that here is a people whose choice among the brands of American cigarettes is based on something more substantial than advertising slogans and endorsements from Hollywood. French discovered, however, that it is really the picture of the camel, not any inherent superiority, which fascinates them...
Sued for Divorce. Pauline Lord, actress (Anna Christie, Strange Interlude) ; by Owen Burtch Winters, Manhattan advertising man, originator of Camel Cigaret's Cellophane advertising campaign; in Reno. Charge: cruelty...
...detachment of the Italian camel corps in Cyrenaica lurched swiftly over stony roads near the Libyan coast last week in pursuit of a band of Arab rebels. Late at night they made contact near the little village of Slonta. There was a running fight. Rifles flashed yellow in the dark. Twelve tribesmen were killed. A short charge captured most of the rest, including their leader, a hardbitten, wiry old veteran of 75, wearing the silken turban cords of a sheik...
...Increased taxation. Britain is already the heaviest taxed nation in the world. The British camel can stand few more straws...