Word: caravaneers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inheritance from his Irish father), was 104 years old, he was finally prevailed upon to recite the story of his life-or rather, one stormy year of it, when as a boy of 12 he journeyed from the tip of Lower California up to San Francisco in the caravan of the Spanish Inspector-General. That was in 1810. He took the journey for his health, having just knifed a local scoundrel with an uncomfortably large number of brothers. It was a long, arduous, dangerous trip, but young Juan had the time of his life. He became immediately devoted...
Almost Kiplingesque was Governor Norman's speech. Britain had grown great by evolution, he declared, while other nations tried revolutionary panaceas essentially un-British. "We shall have many difficulties and much criticism," cried Governor Norman, "but I console myself with this thought: 'The dogs bark but the caravan passes...
...caravan of the lush, black Queen of Sheba crawled down 3,000 years ago from the mountains of what is now Abyssinia and made for Jerusalem's plateau. The wilful Queen had a fancy to prove the great King Solomon "with hard questions." Legend tells how Solomon fed skeptical Sheba heavily salted dishes. When she grew thirsty in the night, she was obliged to pass through Solomon's chamber to reach the fountain. Said she afterward. "The half was not told me: thy wisdom and prosperity exccedeth the fame which I heard" (I Kings 10: 7). From that...
...stretched out for a mile and a half. It was kept in order with the help of radio networks, one relaying messages from Expedition Commander Major John A. Robenson in the vanguard to officers in the rear, another connecting the column with Fort Bliss at El Paso. When the caravan reached Terlingua the horses were unloaded and the cavalry proceeded under their own power 15 mi. to the Mexican border. A significant experiment in army transportation, the expedition indicated that U. S. borders could be protected by distant major posts, thus eliminating the cost of permanent border forts...
Coal-black, naked, a young African Negress converted to Christianity by a female missionary sets out through the jungle to look for God. She meets the God of Genesis, the God of Job, Ecclesiastes. Micah, Pavlov, a Roman soldier, Christ, St. Peter and a procession of churches, a caravan of intellectuals, Mohammed, an imagemaker, Voltaire, and finally Shaw. Naive but nobody's fool, the black girl questions everyone she meets but finds no satisfactory answers. The Gods of Genesis and Job enrage her and she attacks them with her knobkerry (that and a Bible are her only impedimenta). Christ...