Word: camels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...passes a palace and mule-and camel-crowded courtyards, and, bristling with beggars, jugglers, doctors, fortunetellers, scholars, salesmen and young blades on the loose, arches over a river where freight and pleasure boats lie moored in clusters...
...tobacco best said that Riggio, who had brought in his son Louis, 38, as assistant to the president, had gradually added to his own authority and influence at the expense of the younger Hill's. Another reason for Luckies' narrowing lead last year was the fact that Camel production had been stepped up so that Camels could stop rationing dealers, thus boosting sales. (Luckies had dropped rationing...
...have been fighting a civil war for his desert imamate. An Arab League delegation, out from Cairo to investigate affairs in Yemen, has got no farther than Riyadh, capital of Saudi Arabia. There the delegates have shivered through the desert nights behind mud-brick walls, warmed only by their camel's-hair abayas (cloaks...
Thunder-Stroock. "We're thunder-stroock but not conscience-stroock," punned Gimbels in a frozen-smile ad. The Manhattan department store had sold scores of coats which it had advertised as being 60% Stroock cashmere, then discovered that some of them were 59% camel's hair with counterfeit "Stroock" labels. With embarrassed apologies to its customers and Stroock ("We hope it won't happen again"), Gimbels offered to take them back...
...gets a hand-made pine rack lined with small jars of herbs would probably prefer aspirin. A camel's hair bathrobe at upwards of $100.00 not only would represent its North African parents after falling to the floor a couple of times, but would also be no more happily received than half its weight in Camel's. As a book, "Sporting Architecture" is, to Harvard men, worth only the number of Hymarxes if can be traded...