Word: deserter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cleaned them, hung them up for the night to dry, packed them in canvas, and then inside a roll of pedding which we were not to open until the fish were to be eaten. They were carried two days on mules, one day through the heat of the desert, and cooked and eaten in Pasadena, perfectly good. "Ed", the packer, sneered at ice, and said he would show us something better, which he certainly...
...Samaritans. Pilots from the British air bases in Transjordania loaded their planes last week with dates and other comestibles which would not be injured by dropping from a height. Soaring into the zenith they flew up and down the trans-desert motor route between Beirut and Bagdad. Tourists, marooned for almost a week by floods which bogged their motor cars and washed out the railways, gazed thankfully skyward as the British air Samaritans flung man-made manna into their laps. Air Vengeance. At Bombay there was sentenced last week to "five years' rigorous imprisonment" an Arab who would...
...Titian and Tintoretto. It is said that he lived in a little room in the palace of the Cardinal Farnese. He went to Spain when the Duke of Toledo asked Italian painters to work on his cathedral, and in Toledo, stony and enchanted on its hill above a desert where goats wandered with magicians, he painted until the end of his life...
Abou Ben Swenson (may his wife live in peace) awoke that night from a deep dream of peace really the cider was fine. Abou had a growth of black whiskers that was ambush for a whole herd of desert nomads...
...desert rat prepares and does his little best, with thorns and cactus. If he were President of the United States, he would build flying machines and make this nation independent of the flying rattlesnakes of Europe and Asia...