Word: sahara
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Down the Champs Elysees, to ihe profound astonishment of Parisiens, came M. le capitaine et Mme. Delingette, in a chugging six-wheel automobile, "bespattered with sand from the Sahara Desert, clay from the Niger, black earth from the Congo and yellow mud and sand from the South African veldt...
...Lady Who Lied. Lewis Stone, Nita Naldi and Virginia Valli contrive to hoist this hackneyed happening up by its boot straps and make it casually entertaining. It is a yarn of Venice and the Sahara in which the lady marries the wrong man in a fit of pique. She has to renounce her lover to have his life and wait a few months for the husband to be murdered...
...André Citroën, "French Henry Ford," received last week a nasty, grating, jerky jolt. His Trans-African Citroën Co., formed to finance a trans-Sahara route from Colomb-Bechar, southern terminus of the Algerian railways, to Timbuktu (distance of nearly 1,700 miles) was suddenly brought to an untimely...
...away in the wide open spaces of the sandy Sahara, lights went out, hotels were closed. The night descended, the watch-fires of the tribes grew bright and there was great joy in Moorish camps at the ignominious retreat of the infidel...
...contest between subtle cowardice and stupid courage is revived from the dust of the dramatic past. General Primo De Rivera, appropriating the part of King John, remains in Spain to reap the benefits of domestic power, and sends his turbulent rivals a-tourneying with the swarthy Saladdins of the Sahara, with the possibility of martial glory and the certainty of political annihilation. He prays that his noisy King Richards may not return to plague him in his uncertain dominion over the restless liberals of Spain. He has even adopted the knightly tradition of conquering an enemy by joining forces with...