Word: khartoum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Royal decree, Mrs. Broughton became Cara, Baroness Fairhaven, in honor of the fishing village on Buzzard's Bay, Mass., where her father was born. British heraldic experts said that, though many a British peer has chosen for his title the name of a foreign place-viz., Kitchener of Khartoum (Egypt), Byng of Vimy (France), Napier of Magdala (Abyssinia)-Lady Fairhaven is the first to have a title of U. S. extraction...
...flanked by a limitless desert which no army could cross. . . . The British rule Egypt well; make no mistake about that. But it is for Empire revenue, not for self-defense. Even the Egyptians are beginning to see the military absurdity of the plea that it is necessary to occupy Khartoum in order to keep Mussolini out of Alexandria...
...meetings, circa 1841; but his field became international and finally circumnavigatory when he organized the first world tour for tourists in 1872. Perhaps his proudest moment came when Thomas Cook & Son exclusively arranged the transport of that British army which sailed up the Nile to relieve General Gordon at Khartoum (1884). Since then "Cooks' " has stood in travel service for something equivalent to "Sterling." Today the Chairman of "Cooks'," a Knight of Grace, has not strayed so far from temperance as to scorn milk-either shaken or with crackers before...
...very high and close together and a heavy spatulate appendage, blotched and yellow, more like a piece of foot gear than a nose-that was balaeniceps rex, the shoebill stork, who arrived in Manhattan last week, cabined in the officers' quarters of his steamer, from Lake No, near Khartoum, Upper Egypt. He was one of five specimens that collectors have captured in 35 years. Two of his kin died some years ago in England. Two stalk dejectedly about the zoo at Cairo. This fifth one, four feet high, maltese grey, was to tour U.S. zoos, guided by Collector George...
Horatio Herbert Kitchener, Field Marshal Earl Kitchener of Khartoum, was en route to Russia aboard H. M. S. Hampshire on June 5, 1916. So much and no more the world knows of Kitchener. Why the Hampshire sank is not positively known, though conclusive evidence has been adduced to show that she sank as a result of the explosion of a submarine mine. Because so little is known, or because there is so little to know of the presumptive death by drowning of Lord Kitchener, the press has been flooded with recurrent rumors that: a) He was seen in an open...