Word: camels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...characters run from Lord Jeffrey Amherst and the late Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes to Harpo Marx and the only man in the world who ever persuaded a camel to walk backwards. There is a heroic, the-play-must-go-on story about Katharine Cornell, who once arrived late for her show in Seattle, found her audience patiently waiting, and between 1 and 4 o'clock in the morning presented The Barretts of Wimpole Street, sustained only by one egg rustled up for her at 2 a.m. by Producer Guthrie McClintic. There is a story about Editor Robert Quillen...
...having read all other London papers, works often until after midnight, with time out for large and lengthy lunches and dinners. His lone bow to sartorial propriety is a black Homburg hat, the high-toned effect of which he habitually voids by wearing with it a fuzzy, natural-color camel's hair coat...
Lord Errol, who used to read prayers in the family chapel. One day he read: "It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God," then paused and snorted: "Oh, that's damned nonsense. Let us pray...
...insult. . . . I predict that it is the straw that will break the back of the unfair and inequitable wages and prices camel of the Government." The speaker was the usually conservative David B. Robertson, president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen. His subject: the decision of a special railway emergency board, affecting 400,000 members of his and four other operating railroad unions...
They arrived in their native dress, wearing the nobility's turbans (mounted with gold-wrapped ropes made of camel's hair), were greeted by Assistant Secretary of State Adolf A. Berle Jr., and Brigadier General Patrick Jay Hurley, were instantly voted the two most exotic good neighbors of the 1943 Washington social whirl. Hostesses would soon learn that as Wahhabis ("Puritan" Moslems) the two Princes can neither smoke nor drink...