Word: tripoli
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...knew his ministers were going to make him an anniversary gift. When M. Barthou unwrapped his package, the "surprise" of M. Poincare was tact itself. The gift was typically French, a book. Only a connoisseur would have recognized the excessive rarity of this copy of Ilsee Princesse de Tripoli by Robert de la Motte-Ango, Marquis de Flers, with hand lithographed illustrations signed by Mutcha, and a superb binding by the great Charles Meunier. On the fly leaf was written...
England and France, given former Turk lands in Mesopotamia, Palestine, and Syria, have pushed the frontiers of empires further around the Southeastern shores of the Mediterranean. Italy, intent on the Trentino and Trieste in 1919, received little in addition to disappointing Tripoli except the control of Fuime on the Adriatic. Furthermore the appearance of Roumania and Jugo-Slavia as something more than the petty Balkan princedoms of Moldavia--Wallachia and Serbia gave her rivals more serious in many ways than Austria-Hungary had been. So the Peace of Versailles brought no peace to the Near East. Italy's interests traditionally...
Fighting Love (Jetta Goudal, Henry B. Walthall, Victor Varconi). A young Italian beauty marries her father's friend to escape a cad. The villain forthwith orders her husband to Tripoli. Following him into the desert, she falls in love with her handsome officer escort, marries him when her husband's death is reported. Her husband returns, only to commit convenient suicide. Endless shots of Miss Goudal staring vacantly into space between scenes of bloody Arab forays, slow up the action...
From Malta the Air Knight and Lady continued across the Mediterranean to Italian Tripoli upon the Afric shore. Thence across Libya to Egypt and Cairo, where Lady Maud donned her afternoon dress for tea at Shepherds Hotel. Next day the Hercules soared over the Holy Land, descending at Ziza in Palestine. Thence the 543-mile flight to Bagdad was taken in a single jump. Persia and "the road that leadeth to Isphan" loomed...
...French press saw, likewise, the hand of Dictator Mussolini in attacks by Fascists mobs, last week, upon the French consulates at Tripoli and Benghazi in Italian Tripolitania. Though the Italian Foreign Office "apologized," the impression lingered that Fascists are being roused to a fighting mood against France, represented as the fertile republican ground upon which plots are hatched against Fascism...