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...Captain, a Pole interned at Atlanta during the War on suspicion of being a spy, had made a business of organizing bizarre junkets, soliciting junketeers through newspapers. He had been married three times. Only one bulkhead separated the dead man from his two sleeping children, Valerio, 7, and Nile, 6. His wife Aloha, young and comely, was reported in Hollywood at the time of shooting...
...learn the secret of its operation. Chandu monotonously rescues them from his clutches to which they monotonously return. Using his knack of turning rifles into snakes, turning gold pieces into toads, stiffening ropes upright in air, passing through solid walls, getting out of coffins at the bottom of the Nile, and abrogating strict Yoga discipline long enough to fall in love with an Egyptian princess, Chandu should reasonably have solved the situation and ended the picture in three minutes. The origin of his power is given as his eyes ("hypnotism, nothing more") and Edmund Lowe's affable face works hard...
...labor, undirected by science invention and management would have hardly built huts to keep out the weather and would today make playthings out of the factories and bonfires out the schools. Manual labor has been a ready to waste itself for years in building pyramids as to dam the Nile. It is direction from the mind that has built granaries rather than graves. . . . This is as sure as that a million cows would not ot themselves feed a single human child...
There were special arrangements from one end of Mother Nile to the other. Wherever the big British bird alighted for a few minutes to leave a passenger or pick up mail, in popped a Briton to felicitate and annoy King Albert. At Wady Haifa a small special British launch took His Majesty off the air liner promptly, but other passengers waited a long while for the company's big launch. When they were brought ashore at last, there stood King Albert royally rampant...
...languages, including Braille. His hair was growing a little thin above his forehead, but he was ambitious and enthusiastic as ever. He got the University to stake him to another trip to Egypt-this time at the head of a small party. They went 1,000 miles up the Nile through the dangerous rapids of the Fourth Cataract, stayed in Egypt until money ran out. When Dr. Breasted returned he had the seed idea for his Oriental Institute which did not begin to materialize until...