Word: nile
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...when she got to Khartum, on the banks of the upper Nile, it was no longer possible to conceal her passion to win the great race Woman v. Woman. For there British officials stopped her. They positively refused to let her fly over the enemy-infested wastes of the Sudan without an escort. She protested she must fly alone. Was not Lady Sophie flying that very day alone? Not so, said they; Lady Sophie, flying north over the Sudan, had also been forced to take an escort from the other side-a young lieutenant, snatched from the bride with whom...
...great and ancient river lie the cities of Cairo, Delta, Thebes, Karnak. They are prosperous and flourishing communities. Their inhabitants move briskly about in Fords, listen in on radio concerts, attend movies, use electric refrigerators and high-grade plumbing, eat trademarked breakfast foods. The river is not the Nile, but the Mississippi. The district is "Little Egypt," sunny farming district in southwest Illinois. "Little Egypt," as such, got national publicity last fortnight when Editor Allen T. Spivey of the East St. Louis (Ill.) Daily Journal, loaded his Congressional ambitions and campaign speeches into an airplane labelled The Spirit of Egypt...
...shown over the tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen by famed Egyptologist James Henry Breasted of the University of Chicago. With a contented smile, Mr. Eastman remarked that his unburned luggage contains a fine specimen of the nearly extinct white rhinoceros which he shot in the upper Nile region by special permission of the Egyptian Government...
...closely followed by Captain A. E. French '29, swathed in delicate nile green with an under robe of pink. Captain French, swinging his arms like the wings of a bird, ran lightly forward on his toes. As he circled the altar he chanted "Spring, Spring, Spring. I am the Spirit of Spring." The line candidates as a chorus then marched in under the direction of their vigilant tutors and a brief dance by a pony chorus of the kicking squad followed...
...agent through promoting excursions to temperance 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...