Word: orientales
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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One of the most markedly successful applications of the British diplomatic steamroller to an Oriental people was accordingly signalized last week when representatives of Turkey, Irak and Great Britain signed at Angora a ten-year pact of security and nonaggression, apportioning the Vilayet and Village of Mosul to Irak-the...
Married. Emily Josephine Smith, 24, daughter of Governor Alfred E. Smith of New York, to Major John Adams Warner, 39, Superintendent of State Police, at Albany. Notables attending the wedding included: George Brennan (Democratic boss of Illinois), George W. Olvany (leader of Tammany), Owen D. Young, Mr. and Mrs. Walter...
Lanice's face is disturbingly like that of an Oriental princess in a miniature on ivory long carried by a demented seafaring relative, one of the Captains Poggy.
A Polack's eyes popped at a huge bell, four stories high. He wondered why anyone should want a bell that big. He strolled past a tinselly lagoon and came to five great exhibition halls, not one of which was complete and all of which were sparsely dotted with exhibits...
It was the Arabian Nights and a portion of the spirit of Mohammed's fierce armies coming in contact with the dreary military regime of hand-salutes and travelling mess-kitchen and courses in tactics. Abd-el-Krim himself was responsible for no small part of this drama. Instead of...