Word: mule
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...palette. ' his brushes. In 1861 Harper's Weekly him to Washington to make drawings the inauguration of Abraham Lincoln, r sent him on the Peninsular Campaign to make war sketches. Harper's readers soon began to look forward to the weekly drawings of loafing sentries, mule skinners, sutlers, cannoneers, "from our special correspondent at the front...
...last week General Oreste Mariotti squinted from mule-back along the dry bed of the Ende River, a strip of boulders and gravel between mountainous shrub covered hills, blew his whistle and halted his column...
Emphatically last week the Sultan had yet to be bought. With dusky guile his tribesmen pretended to welcome the Italian advance until the unknown General's column was well past Mount Mussa Ali. Then from all sides they struck. Two Italian mule caravans freighted with food and munitions were captured, according to bug-eyed native runners who reached Dessye. They said that the main Italian column, fighting in the classic hollow square formation Queen Victoria's troops used in the Sudan, managed to stand off the tribesmen with a loss of 200 native and white Italian troops. Dejected...
Captain Dorman, Frank Vincent, and Leon Manheimer are meeting the mule for the third time, while Jim Wood and Bob Holcombe were also in the last year's lineups. But today it is the play of Carr's six other booters, under major fire for the first time, that will determine the outcome...
...gorges, jungles and plateaus of Ethiopia, until it rolled into the capitals of the six great rases (princes), whose war drums took it up, passed it on to the great chiefs and the little chiefs. To the farthest nomadic tribes, foraging no one knew where, couriers rode out by mule and camel. "Kitet!" was the word the criers and couriers gave, ''Close ranks, unite...