Word: low
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...critical observations from aboard the Filipino- financed Bustamente (TIME, July 26, et seq.). Slowly the little steamer pushed through hundreds of emerald islets in a turquoise sea beneath azure heavens-on, on to Cuyo Island, veritable Eden in the Sulu Sea. Col. Thompson, pleased, ambled beneath outlandish cocoanut palms, low luscious mangoes. No phones, newspapers, railroads, trolleys or automobiles marred this hot perfection. Ah, to be a barefoot native! . . . But business pressed. Mr. Thompson reluctantly doffed his white helmet to the glistening coral beach, proceeded to the Island of Palawan where a launch took him up the Iwahig River...
...waited upon His Majesty last week, petitioned him not to sign a decree increasing the tax on foreigners' hotel bills in Belgium 20%. The King was informed by many an anxious boniface that tourists will not flock to Belgium if the present inducements of free visas and low taxes are curtailed. "World Crime Wave." The First International Conference on Penal Law assembled at Brussels last week with a roster of delegates from 40 nations, including a representative of the U. S. National Crime Commission (TIME, May 10, NATIONAL AFFAIRS). M. Carton De Wiart, perhaps most famed of living Belgian...
Seeing is believing-and remem- bering. If adults can be made to believe that painted ladies and yel- low-collared gentlemen are nobly in love with each other, or that certain drawing-room manners, courageous leaps and skillful rescues represent slices from real life, simply by the flicker of light through celluloid, then surely children can be made to believe, remember and perhaps understand certain other human activities and natural phenomena of a more educational nature...
Miss Gertrude Bell died last week. When Death entered her low, rambling, exquisitely luxurious home in Bagdad, Great Britain lost the most remarkable and certainly the most charming woman who has served the Empire in a century. Middleaged, but slender and quick as a girl, she was by title only Oriental secretary to Sir Henry Dobbs, British High Commissioner to Irak. Actually Sir Henry, King Faisal of Irak, and Premier Abdul Mushsin Beg al Ga'dun, deferred consistently to her as the most brilliant and profound feminine apostle of Anglo-Mesopotamian concord who ever lived. The kingdom of Irak...
Died. A. B. Elliott, British air plane mechanic; at Basra, Irak (near Bagdad). A wandering Arab shot him while on duty flying low over the desert in a plane piloted by Lieut. Alan Cobhain...