Word: el
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Edward B. McLean and later went to a charity ball at the Willard. This year the Coolidges went to no ball. But a charity ball at the new Mayflower Hotel was attended by Mr. and Mrs. Dawes. They arrived about 10:00 P. M. The orchestra struck up El Capitan and they were escorted the length of the hall behind the colors. The Vice President went down the floor rapidly followed in a more leisurely fashion by Mrs. Dawes in white crepe with a silver train. Her dress was not low necked and it had short sleeves?since she does...
...El Capitan March, Banjo, Club...
...el-Krim, Moorish rebel against the Spaniards and Moroccan Sultan Mulay Yussef. These officers commanded Raisuli to surrender, informed him that his life would be spared if he did Abd-el-Krim's bidding. Raisuli surrendered, ordered his 16-year-old son and his nephew, Mulai, to proceed to Sheshuan and surrender themselves to the brother of the great Moorish rebel of the Riff country. He signed a letter addressed to Abd-el-Krim himself, stating that, if illness had not prevented him, he would have presented himself in person. Only a short time before, he had written rudely...
...house came Sheik Mustapha el Maraghi, Grand Cadi of Egypt (sort of Chief Justice of the Supreme Mohammedan Court in Egypt), stepped into a waiting carriage...
...coast of Africa in order to determine the best location for this southern station of the University Observatory. Since its foundation at Arequipa, Professor Bailey has been in complete charge of the work there. In 1893 he established a meteorological station on the summit of the famous Andes peak, El Misti, which rears its head 19,000 feet above sea level. In this little hut which is by far the highest station erected for scientific observation in the world observations of the greatest importance were carried on for over 10 years...