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...sheikess of the piece. First as prisoner, then as guest of Kothra and the Sheykh Haroun, her father, young O'Neill is torn between ancestral pride and desert love; also between his inherited Christianity, which the crusaders' irreligion spoils for him, and Islam, which his courteous captor-hosts gently urge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Reverse Irish | 4/9/1928 | See Source »

Finally, the Moorish emissary of the captor of the French men and women said that much money must be paid. How much ? Oh, a very great deal. What else ? Large supplies of food would be acceptable. What kind of food? Oh, many kinds of food. Food for men or food for guns? Perhaps, food for men. What else? The Sheik thought some knives and a lot of other things would be very acceptable. Well, to begin again, how much money? Ah, said the Sheik, there is something more important. We must have a phonograph. That was the only thing about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Ransom | 11/14/1927 | See Source »

...Prohibition officer tracking down a suspicious-looking individual whose coat-pocket bulged with a telltale protuberance. They saw him clap hand on this individual's shoulder, reach into the bulging pocket and withdraw a bottle containing whiskey. And they saw the arrested individual turn upon his captor the face of Ed Jackson, Governor of Indiana...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: In Indiana | 6/6/1927 | See Source »

...sixth captured by collectors in the past 35 years. The first shoebill stork ever brought to the U. S. arrived last month from upper Egypt (TiME, Oct. 18) in charge of his captor, Collector George H. Bistany, and was to tour the country's zoos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Horde | 11/8/1926 | See Source »

...means of blankets, as well as to try every other method that can serve to extirpate this execrable race." Bluff, arrogant, forthright, Amherst is thus seen as a soldier of quite modern scientific resourcefulness, for all the eclipse that his military record suffered through the brilliancy of Wolfe, captor of Quebec...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: At Amherst | 6/14/1926 | See Source »

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