Word: mediterranean
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Author. Mrs. Edith Wharton (née Jones of New York), a vigorous lady of 63, seldom leaves the cosmopolitan stream of charming and distinguished people constantly passing through her villa at Hyères on the Mediterranean and her house in Paris. Since 1899, she has been known as the most apt pupil Novelist Henry James ever had-a pupil with a score of polished books to her credit, including one American masterpiece, Ethan Frame...
This woman has a husband who loves her and yet laughs at her domestic defections. He is suddenly reported dead. An earnest young man offers marriage and a rich continental suggests a Mediterranean trip on his yacht to console her. The husband reappears, agrees to his wife's departure first with the young man, then with the old one, finally receives her happily back into his arms...
...admitted to the U. S. These in time are sure to become more and more easy to pass, and the barrier is likely to be overridden. Coffee herries, mangoes, alligator pears from Hawaii are rigidly excluded from entrance to the continental U. S.-for fear of importing the Mediterranean fruit fly. Seme Californians wish that Jappo-Americans from Hawaii could be excluded in the same...
...Story. A small caravan led by A. M. Hassanein Bey, F.R.G.S., set out from Sellum on the Mediterranean in 1923, began to crawl in the sun's eye across the Libyan Desert. Seven months later, Explorer Hassanein reached El Fasher in the Sudan, having covered 2,200 miles of little-known terrain, discovered two important oases, mapped a new route from Egypt to equatorial Africa, collected a large amount of orographic geological material. He has written the narrative of that expedition...
King George and Queen Mary stopped off in Paris on their way home from their cruise in the Mediterranean and visits to the South of France and Italy (see COMMONWEALTH...