Word: petra
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lear was a professional expatriate of the Robert Browning-Walter Savage Landor school. Most of his life was spent in Rome, Corfu, San Remo. His travels through Europe, Asia and Africa look like a map of the Barbarian Invasions. He saw Petra before Doughty, was nearly killed there by the Arabs, muddled through with superb British calm. Fanatics tried to assassinate the author of The Owl and the Pussy-Cat in India, in Turkey. At last Lear settled down in his San Remo villa with an Albanian servant and his cat Foss, "his daily companion for nearly 17 years." There...
...foreign field seemed to present a more effective picture. It was one of the largest and best to appear at Forest Hills in recent years, including Japan's No. 1 Jiro Yamagishi, France's No. 2 Yvon Petra, England's No. 2 Charles Edgar Hare. England's No. 1 Bunny Austin was not there, but Budge had already given him a conclusive beating this year in the Davis Cup challenge round. The player who seemed to stand firmly in Donald Budge's path, however, was none of these. At Forest Hills for the first time...
...scream is heard around the world. Some 1,000 bombs dropped in the 17 minutes the planes circled over Dessye killed 53 persons, wounded 200. In the mêlée somebody shot Correspondent Georges Goyon of the Havas News Agency through the knee, and a Miss Petra Hoevig, Red Cross nurse serving in the Adventist hospital, broke her leg jumping into a trench for safety. They were rushed to Addis Ababa by plane. Typical of the reaction of newshawks was that of Herald Tribune Correspondent Linton Wells. For weeks he has chafed publicly at the dirt and discomfort...
...sold more than 250,000 copies, not counting $1 reprints. In his Wright-powered Stearman biplane, The Flying Carpet, piloted by one Moye Stephens, Halliburton rode leisurely from London to Manila. On the way they stopped at Timbuctoo, spent two months with the French Foreign Legion in Morocco, visited Petra, Bagdad, India's Taj Mahal, claimed the first airplane photograph of Mt. Everest (Halliburton publishes a blurry picture which he says was taken at 18,000 ft.), were entertained by Dyak headhunters. For vicarious thrills of thoroughly professional daring, The Flying Carpet can safely be recommended to ladies...