Word: nile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ladies of Egypt used cosmetics much as we do today. They had oils and ointments for the body, perfumes for the hair, clay packs from the Nile for the face, and henna dyes for the finger nails and palms...
Glory. Actress Hayes' "cute" period fused with her more mature phase in Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra. The Serpent of the Nile was her first regal impersonation. Notwithstanding Columnist Franklin Pierce Adams' crack that she was suffering from "fallen archness," Miss Hayes still maintains: "I felt that my tiny Cleopatra was just right. It seemed to me that Shaw meant her to be a gay young numbskull.'' It seemed that way to the theatre going public, too, for Caesar and Cleopatra had a long and prosperous run. The god Broadway was beginning to give...
...rioting spread to the nearby towns of Tanta, Beni Suef and next day to Giza, across the Nile from Cairo. There Egyptian police, with British Major Lees at their head, met Egypt's young patriots at the great Abbas Bridge. Five times Major Lees shouted to them to go back, then a flying bottle knocked him down. The Briton rose to his knee, took out his pistol, killed one Egyptian, wounded three others. Street fighting then began in earnest. Dead at week's end were eight Egyptians; wounded were more than 200 Egyptians and police...
Professor Langer also emphasized the importance of the Nile water resources as a determining factor in British policy, although the one least mentioned in newspaper accounts. "Ever since the middle ages, a story has been current that the water supply of the Nile could be diverted," he said. "For long periods at a time, Egyptian Pharaohs used to pay bribes to keep the Ethiopians from tampering with the headwaters of the Nile...
...ever since summer crops have been cultivated in the Nile valley, it has been found necessary to conserve the water during the flood season. The source of the Blue Nile, or Lake Tana, is generally agreed to be the place best suited for a dam site. With just such a dam in mind, England has made a recent treaty with Ethiopia stating that neither government could alter the water supply without the consent of the other. As no treaty exists between England and Italy, it is evident that the fate of the Nile valley would rest entirely with the Italians...