Word: caravaneers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fleet of cars drew up at the gate of the palace. In the first car sat Dr. Gregorio Maranon, prominent Republican, guarantor for the safety of the caravan. King & Queen bade each other a tearful goodbye. Queen Victoria Eugenie and her children began their flight to France by driving to the Escorial, that rambling building 31 miles from Madrid that is at the same time a monastery, a church, a palace and a mausoleum, whose name is literally "The Dump." A curious crowd gathered at the Escorial railroad station where the Royal car, its white blinds drawn, stood coupled...
...Albany, N. Y., a gypsy caravan was arrested for traffic violation. Asked to produce bail, the gypsy chief handed the judge his small baby, said: "Keep the kid." The judge demurred. The tribe gave $4 bond, did not reappear...
...Loneliness-half again as large as France-with the remnant of a race whose mighty civilization long ago was overthrown, buried by the shifting sand. Scientific speculation has long visualized there a central, sunken oasis capable of sustaining life. Midway of his 58-day trek, Explorer Thomas crossed deep caravan tracks. He learned from his Bedouin followers that it was the road to Urbar, buried city of tribal legend. But no other trace of civilized man or oasis did he find. He heard the great dunes made vocal by the winds-the "singing sands" of tribal tradition, which says they...
Major James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney of the Connecticut Naval Militia obtained a three-year leave of absence and prepared to sail for Syria, where he will join a scientific tractor-caravan expedition being organized by Vice President Georges Marie Haardt of Citroen Corp. to follow the route of Marco Polo across Syria, Irak, Persia, Afghanistan, Tibet, China. Mrs. Polly Lauder Tunney planned to go as far as Beirut. Governor Wilbur Lucius ("Uncle Toby") Cross of Connecticut who lately majored Tunney for his staff, expressed regret...
...called because, located at an extremity north of the Sahara Desert, it is also only a few miles Kiver Niger. Present population, 7,000 humans who supply the wants of many thousands of caravan camels, 18,000 caravan and river traders yearly, also weave cotton, make pottery, do leatherwork, pluck a little embroidery...