Word: orders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...limitless desert which no army could cross. . . . The British rule Egypt well; make no mistake about that. But it is for Empire revenue, not for self-defense. Even the Egyptians are beginning to see the military absurdity of the plea that it is necessary to occupy Khartoum in order to keep Mussolini out of Alexandria...
...Grand Trunk of the Order of Elephants produced a new ballad last week. Thirty-four years ago when he was selling hats in Manhattan he wrote the ballad now used for Brown Derby parades. Its chorus...
...Grand Trunk is James W. Blake, benign-looking, round-faced man who wears eyeglasses. His Order of the Elephants, which he founded, tries to spread happiness among business men. The only requirement for membership is to keep smiling. Lodges are called "tusks...
Important, therefore, were July statements of the two chief U. S. mail order houses, vendors of many a luxury and nearly all necessities, barometers of prosperity. Sears, Roebuck & Co. announced record July sales of $26,276,337 as against $20,960,713 in July, 1927. Montgomery Ward & Co. reported $13,976,559 as against...
...ISLAND OF CAPTAIN SPARROW-S. Fowler Wright-Cosmopolitan ($2.00). Young Foyle is cast upon an imaginary mid-Pacific island-not to found the new social order, but to encounter thrilling adventures among relics of four races: satyrs who mate with human beings, ruka-birds of uncanny intelligence, high-minded followers of the Priest of Gir, and the low-born descendants of a pirate crew. Satyr hunts, cannibalistic orgies, hair-raising escapes are in order. But Author Wright will rather be remembered for the swift ingenuity of his unique Deluge...