Word: humps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...water. The best racers are Mehara dromedaries. They are mostly bred by that old tribe whose men haughtily and in disdain of modern usage still wear veils with their black tunics: the Tuaregs. The riders sit on small saddle-platforms placed in front of the dromedary's single hump. They hold rods in their hands and reach forward with a peculiar, tense movement to tap the camel on the left side of the neck when they want him to turn right, on the right side to turn left. From deep in the riders' throats comes a sombre wail...
...Without question the more progressive cities and States will be prepared for any volume of traffic which may come to them during the new year, or indeed in the years that follow," says Dr. McClintock. "It is safe to say that we are over the hump with respect to the traffic problem, and that there can no longer be any doubt of the capacity of cities and States to achieve progressive improvement in street and highway safety and congestion. It will demand constant work but the elements to assure success are available...
Down the main street of Yerington, Nev. (90 mi. from Reno) moved a small circus parade. Swaying gracefully on the head of an elephant leading the procession sat Senator Tasker Lowndes Oddie. Perched upon a second elephant was Nevada's Governor, Frederick Bennett. Rocking on the hump of the show's lone camel came Lieut. Governor Morley Griswold. These three Republicans had come to town to campaign for reelection. Unable to compete with the circus, they had pocketed their speeches, joined the performance...
...innumerable gambling places and speakeasies. Almost completely ignored by the thousands who descend upon Saratoga every summer for a brief fortnight of track betting are the 25 curative, State-owned mineral springs which brought the town its first fame, made Saratoga more fashionable than Newport in the '705, put hump-backed Saratoga trunks in every fashionable attic, Saratoga (thirst-making) chips on every smart table. Throughout the town and the i,ioo-acre state park around it, the springs of Saratoga bubble today as they did 50 years ago through cast-iron hydrants and bronze pipes into dingy pagodas...
...onetime Governor of Ohio, wealthy, politically independent. Nominee Pattison, blond, affable, drove a truck in France during the War, later fought the Reds as a captain in the Polish air corps. He still flies, golfs. Speaker Longworth, opposed by Labor as a reactionary, may have to hump himself, for the first time in 15 years, to be returned to Congress...