Word: outlands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Egypt is to Islam about what the U. S. is to Catholic Rome-an outland which provides large sums of money but gets modest recognition from the high church hierarchy. Until 1926 an annual train of Egyptian Mohammedan pilgrims made its way to Mecca, bringing gifts of money, grain and a newly woven black brocade carpet to cover Mecca's sacred, silver-incrusted Black Stone, a meteorite supposed to have fallen in Adam's time. To protect the Egyptian pilgrims from Ibn Saud's marauding Wahabi warriors went each year a company of Egyptian soldiers...
...circle so that international law was excluded, excluded as an inhabitant of that legal periphery more closely related to public ethics than to law. Anyone who has examined, with whatever percipience, the history of the League must commend Dicey's distinction as well drawn. For the kind of legal outland which it described is very close to Geneva; a legal outland in which all must be trusted to the arbitrary will of the individual, to the sovereignty of an irresponsible and independent group which is nothing more than a congress of victory. To such a group the sanctions...
Without world union, which would reproduce internationally the national structure essential to the rule of law, the League must remain in this outland. Mr. Hitler must look to its rulers for its substance; and having done so, he is not reassured. To a mere club of public ethics this sincere patriot should not trust the destiny of a single Prussian grenadier, and the club itself should not expect him to do so. If war comes, Mr. Hitler will bear a heavy burden of guilt, but in that guilt we cannot include charges of contempt for an organization which weighs...
Manhattanites luxuriating last week where the weather was warm thanked the good fortune which enabled them to escape an influenza epidemic so severe, according to outland newspapers, that the Metropolitan Opera House had been forced to close...
...animals, little people-as hazards, direction posts, decoration. By long practice the people from Jacksonville learned to play Cinderella, to kill Red Riding Hood, to fool Little Miss Muffet. Of course, Chattanooga putters had practiced on the course a lot too, but they were rattled by competition with the outland contestants. Impulsive Chinese Grace Moy of Brooklyn arrived in her car late one evening and went right out to play. She was up early in the morning to play some more. Her scores were bad. She said: "If I don't break par this round I'll jump...