Word: latakia
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Already headed for Cyprus was the first Nazi detachment. From Ankara came report of arrival of a Nazi infantry unit, with armored cars and field guns, at the Syrian port of Latakia. Reported objective: Beirut, Lebanon capital, 100 miles southward...
Famed is Johnny Berdan's course in Daily Themes. Each morning, five mornings a week, generations of Yale men have dropped their themes in a box outside Professor Berdan's foul-smelling office. The door is always open and Professor Berdan, smoking an overpowering Latakia tobacco in a meerschaum pipe loves to invite his students in, insist that they smoke a strong Cuban cigaret, talk to them for hours on end. He makes it a point to read every theme (200 a week) himself. In class he rips the themes to pieces, likes to make his students angry...
...with a humorous satire on the misadventures of an Oxford professor of Arabic who in imagination has been transferred to the heaven of his studies and there meets with the author, as described in the following All the land is misty and fragrant with the perfume of the softest Latakia, and the gardens are musical with the bubbling of countless naghiles; and I must say that to the Christian soul which enters that paradise the whole place has, certainly, a rather curions air, as of a highly transcendental Cremorne. There could be no doubt, however, that the faithful were enjoying...