Word: camels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Maurice Chevalier, camel-lipped love songster (". . . every little breeze seems to whisper Louise.") sang & danced for French war prisoners in Germany...
Brushes made from soft Russian sable bristles are plentiful. But stiff German-dressed South American ox bristles and "camel hair" (obtained not from camels but from Russian squirrels) are practically unobtainable...
Proofreader: "Slip 47. Jedha, the she-camel, was Jedhah on Slip 40." Lawrence: "She was a splendid beast." Proofreader: "Slip 78-Sherif Abd el Mayin of Slip 68 becomes el Main, el Mayein, el Muein, el Mayin, and el Muyein."Lawrence: "Good egg. I call this really ingenious."Wacky and whacky can also be spelled wackie, whackie, wackey, whackey, wacquey, whaquey, wakki...
...respected in Arabia even more than Lawrence was, Glubb Bey is now the rock under Britain's shaky Arab household. His quiet demeanor hides fighting anger which makes him deadly when aroused. Of all his colorful Arab nicknames Glubb prefers Rai el Boueidah (Guardian of the Little White Camel), which he earned for saving the life of a young camel during a skirmish...
...Whitney's exwife, and Gwladys Hopkins Whitney, ex of Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, helped form a lobby in Washington against a proposal to tax ex-wives for the alimony they get and let ex-husbands deduct the alimony they pay. Dropped once, the measure is due to reappear. Camel-lipped Character George Arliss appeared before the Lord Mayor of London, was fined $18,000 for not registering with the Bank of England some $52,000 worth of U.S. and Canadian securities. The onetime portrayer of money-wizard Rothschild said he was an innocent in money matters. The Lord Mayor disagreed...