Word: syrians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nick Keart is a small Syrian, a "bookie" at the racetrack. His career has been interrupted by a sentence to the Washington, D. C.. jail. Well does he know Rancocas stable and its fast horses-Zev, Mei Foo, Greylag...
Alexander the Great conquered the Near East and in the present Syrian hinterland founded a military colony, Europos. This was about 300 B.C. The next century the Parthians conquered the place; then, in the next, the Romans. The name became Dura. About the time of Jesus, the Romans retreated and desert sands quickly covered buildings. In 1920 British soldiers accidentally discovered Dura. Word went to the late Gertrude Bell. She sent a call to Professor James Henry Breasted of the University of Chicago, who was at Luxor, Egypt, his headquarters for Egyptian research. He sped to Dura, hastily made photographs...
Bubbling with a champagne sparkle of mellower, sweeter, vintage is the tale of a Syrian from the sidewalks of New York,†† who went to visit the great, romantic chieftain of Arabians, Ibn Saud, Sultan of Nejd and King of the Hejaz. Before a backdrop colorful with the picturesqueness of desert life strides a stalwart, six-foot Sultan, who scorns and rejects Occidental customs, yet is shrewd enough to entertain visiting British statesmen with their favorite brands of whiskey, mineral water, and even "kippers." When the Britons are gone, all residual whiskey & soda & kippers are abandoned on the desert...
Nicholas Forzely, or Forzelli, was his real name. He was a race-track gambler, the son of a Syrian hop-seller, who seldom bet on a horse except to win. In the course of his wild career, he was often broke and more than once a millionaire. In 1923 he swaggered into New Orleans with a few dollars in his pocket and came away, after the season's racing, with $800,000. A few months later he lost his money and got pneumonia. He went to a hospital and said, "Pneumonia is easy to beat...
...seven days and nights on the pinnacle of a thirty-nine foot flag-pole if he so desires. But for even the minimum amount of dignity to attach itself to such a feat, the would-be Stygirite must produce a cogent reason for his conduct. The motive of the Syrian saint who lived atop a pillar was one which has commanded the respect of posterity; the reason for the lofty position of his imitator who is fasting atop a New-ark flagpole is also perfectly credible to those who read of his exploit. Saint Simeon was actuated by religious aspirations...