Word: sand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Loves and New. E. M. Hull, who wrote The Sheik is responsible for the narrative genesis of this gaudy chapter. It is about English people in the sand countries and ends up with an elephant stepping on the wicked Lord's head. Lewis Stone and Katherine MacDonald are the protagonists...
...William Burke Miller, $1,000, for best reporting. His subject was Floyd Collins in Sand Cave, Ky.; his paper, the Louisville Courier-Journal...
...party plowed back across the Sahara, smitten sorely by sand- storms, but not before M. Maurice Reygasse, savant and Governor of the Department of Tebessa, had ingratiated himself with Amenokal Akhamouk, monarch of the Tuaregs (who only a few years ago scourged the desert, slew foreigners), to such an extent that a royal edict was issued to find and lay before white archeologists a manuscript containing, in several hundred sheets of parchment, the only known history of the Tuaregs. This should throw much light on the history of the Punic Carthaginians with whom, it is now established, the Tuaregs traded...
...country, are, as has been said before, the last word in bad construction. In fact little or no construction is evident. When it rains, the sunken tracks become actual rivers of mud. Across the desert roads are practically negligible. The Gobi desert is itself an immense expanse of sand and rocks stretching over what seem almost illimitable distances. Out of the more or less even plain of the desert, huge, weather-worn cliffs that tower up perpendicularly as for instance the magnificent organ rocks which rise for hundreds of feet above the desert floor and have been fluted...
...Nevada, an expedition from the Museum of the American Indian (Manhattan), called in by Governor James Graves Scrugham to examine the great cliff city (Pueblo Grande de Nevada) which he had discovered personally (TIME, March 23, 1925), threw up sand all winter over a stretch six miles long, baring abodes ranging from scooped-out hollows in the earth to extensive stone apartment-buildings that sheltered whole clans; bringing the number of skeletons found to 56, some wrapped in pink, purple and blue shrouds of soft texture, with turquoise, stone and shell ornaments littered near. In the Mountain of the Mother...