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...wearing a romantic turban, bedsheets and a polite but hungry leer. His name is Jamil (Ramon Novarro) and he is first seen functioning, for reasons of his own, as a guide to tourists in a Cairo hotel. When the proud but passionate fiancee (Myrna Loy) of a swagger young Englishman arrives to see the sights, it is not hard to guess how Jamil will show them to her. He kidnaps her in the desert, sings to her, takes her to his native village, beats her, lets her go back to Cairo to marry her Britisher, abducts her once more just...
Going home for a short visit, she met an Englishman in the Chinese Government Service, had a premonition that he would marry her. He did, and the rest of her book describes chiefly her life in the foreign settlements of Nanking, Canton, Tientsin. All through China's recent troubled years Nora Waln has kept green her friendship with the Lin family. When she wrote her book about them she got bilingual Yeng-peng to read it to the assembled family, asked their permission to publish it. The 18-day reading completed, permission was granted. Said Uncle Keng...
...three centuries Greenland was a republic. In 1261 it became a Norwegian colony and a government ship went once a year to Greenland; after 1410 it went no more. In 1585 an Englishman found only graves and Eskimos in Greenland. The Norse skeletons showed the effects of scurvy and rickets. In 1721 a Norwegian missionary tried again to make Greenland a white man's land, and Norway began to ship its convicts to Greenland. But in 1814 Norway lost Greenland. It was done by an Irishman's "lie" that last week reverberated through Norway and Denmark...
...vast bird sanctuary. Lafcadio Hearn knew Japan in the same way. Mr. Guedalia understands the implications of the Monroe Doctrine. He is careful to point out the advantages of the Argentine's economic dependence on Great Britain, which is best strengthened by the indulgence of the beef eating Englishman. In fact, his wit is considerably circumscribed because he is on an official commission, and is forced to limit his barbed wit to thrusts at the Damnyanke and the wily French. Because of these impediments to the Communication of sensations out of his own sphere, Sterne would call...
International Aircraft & Airways, founded in 1935 by an Englishman, a Russian and an American, had an ambitious idea behind it: world transport must govern the world. As the power of I. A. & A. grew, transcending governments, the idea became a fact, and for 50 years the world lived under an international pax aeronautica. Real and acknowledged world rulers of those days were the twelve Directors of I. A. & A. Armament was permitted only to the I. A. police. Popular government, individual liberty were anachronisms in this sternly centralized system. And though peace & prosperity were everywhere, here & there the old superstition...