Word: indias
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hornaday has studied and collected wild life in virtually every retreat and game paradise of the world. He knows from personal acquaintance the cave-birds of Trinidad; the crocodiles of Florida and Venezuela; the elephants of Africa and India; the musk ox and his ugly tropical cousin, the water buffalo, which stalks humans. He has collected turtles and their eggs at Key West and mountain goat photographs and horns in the Shoshones. One of the most readable chapters he ever wrote is called "Game-Eating Adventures," beginning with the hump-backed whale luncheon given by Professor Henry Fairfield Osborn...
From South and West Africa, Morocco, Mesopotamia, Transjordania, Tripoli, Tunis, Syria, Libya, Java, India there came to Cairo last week grave and potent Mohammedans, who solemnly entered and squatted within the mosque of Islam's most ancient university, El Azhar
...Congress, but entertained no credulous hopes that he is likely to become temporal and spiritual overlord of Islam should the Conference indorse his claims. Though the British "protectorate" over Egypt terminated in 1922, Britain will tolerate no uprisings in Egypt which might threaten the Suez Canal -"the route to India...
...tainting man's natural intelligence with education. He has a daughter, Adelaide, highly modernized by upstate schooling, with whom Abner's fortunes are further involved. The complications pile up alarmingly until, puzzled by Railroad's tactics, acquaintances cremate him alive in his office. Adelaide goes to India. Abner, poor again, goes to take care of Nessie and their baby, the worn-out Belshue having committed suicide at a chronologically proper moment...
...Jacchia, will begin at 8.15 o'clock as follows: Entrance, of the Gladlators Fucik Overture to "The Beautiful Galatea" Suppe Fantasia, "Rigoletto" Verdi Suite "L'Arlesienne No. 2" Bizet a. Pastorale b. Minuet c. Farandole Canzone van Westerhout Overture to "The Flying Dutchman" Wagner Rhapsody, "Espana" Chabrier Song of India Rimsky-Korsakov (Solo English Horn: Louis Speyer) American Fantasy Herbert Marche Slave Tchaikovsky