Word: sandstorms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Capt. Francisco Jiminez-with Capt. Ignacio Iglesias, from Spain towards India. After 27 hours flying a sandstorm forced them down in Mesopotamia. Germany: Capt. Herman Koehl-in the Bremen from Ireland to Labrador. France: Capt. Dieudonné Costés-with Lieut. Commander Joseph Lebrix, on a 35,000-mile world aerial tour. Italy: Capt. Ferrarin. In Latin America the best flyers were: Venezuela, Capt. Manuel Rios, Ecuador, Capt. Luis Mantilla; Bolivia, Major Santalla Estrella...
...Garden of Allah (Alice Terry, Ivan Petrovitch). When Rex Ingram went to work on Robert Hichens' novel* he seemed to be on an easy road to a masterpiece. No expense was spared to send the company into the Sahara, where they filmed a sandstorm rolling the dunes around like waves, strange natives, bowing down to weird customs, priests of Allah calling from minaret...
...loathsome shapes of evil conjured by Bar-jesus of Paphps. The Celtic love of melodramatizing the supernatural, in sheer romance a virtue but here a weakness, crops out often enough to mar the fine simplicity with which more familiar miracles are treated-Saul's epileptic vision in a sandstorm on the Damascus road; making the cripple of Lystra leap up and walk; breathing life into the broken boy, Eutychus; surviving the viper's bite at Melita, island of honey. But only by its preponderant power are the book's weaknesses found out. Taken whole...
Thereby the new London-to-Delhi commercial air route was inaugurated by a plane which flew exactly according to schedule. The only unwonted incident was a sandstorm which forced the machine to turn back and wait a few hours at Jask, Persia, last week. There the local Kahn of Kelat made the waiting time pass swiftly by commanding his minions to roll up a priceless rug from the floor and take down a jeweled swordl from the wall. The rug to Lady Maud. The sword to Sir Samuel. Then they flew...
...them to land on the Island of Formosa. But Japan's warning proved unnecessary. Landing at Macao, Asiatic Portugal, one flyer struck a tree; his comrade's plane was missing. Companions in another plane had been confounded crossing the turbulent air-passages of hot Arabia, had descended in a sandstorm, been rescued after exposure to fierce hunger and thirst...