Word: sidon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...General Henri Gouraud, bearded, one-armed hero of the poilus and doughboys, was elected to the French Academy in the section of archeology. While commanding French forces in the Near East he created an archeological service which facilitated the excavations at Byblus, Tyre, Sidon...
...Saida (Sidon), Syria, 600 beautiful and unmarried girls pine for husbands. There are none in Saida. Sadly they gaze across the Mediterranean and sigh for the United States. The Syrian quota is full. Desperately determined, the girls would sail to the three-mile limit and invite matrimonially inclined Americans to choose their brides. This suggestion is said to have reached the Near East Relief...
...Rider Haggard is not so young as he once was. He has lost much of the power of fiery action and intriguing suspense which made his earlier books deservedly so popular. Here and there we see flashes of the sparks that once flew from his pen--the destruction of Sidon, the battle at sea with the Persian trireme, the fateful kiss in the Temple of Isis--but for the most part the book, judged by the standards of Haggard's other mystery romances, is a disappointment...