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...would work for nothing took their places. The bank's business, he soon decided, was to control or ruin other businesses. After a few years he exchanged one hopelessness for another and took service in the army in Morocco, building a road into the hostile territory of Abd-el-Krim. From top officers down, the army was as sick with graft as many of its members were with malaria and syphilis...
Proofreader: "Slip 47. Jedha, the she-camel, was Jedhah on Slip 40." Lawrence: "She was a splendid beast." Proofreader: "Slip 78-Sherif Abd el Mayin of Slip 68 becomes el Main, el Mayein, el Muein, el Mayin, and el Muyein."Lawrence: "Good egg. I call this really ingenious."Wacky and whacky can also be spelled wackie, whackie, wackey, whackey, wacquey, whaquey, wakki...
Damascus was too Oriental for gayety, but not for long. Isabel instituted polyglot Wednesday receptions-"there were thirty-six races and creeds and tongues." Dressed as a Moslem woman, she frequented the bazaars and harems. Their great friends were Abd-el-Kadir, an almost legendary chieftain who had held out for 15 years against the French, and Jane Digby El Mezrab, the Mabel Dodge Luhan of her time. The four of them used to have ritual evening meals on the roof, "and after that we would smoke our narghilehs and talk and talk and talk far into the night...
...Pasha, leader of Egypt's greatest party, the Wafd, lost his job as Premier. Last week, however, he had the laugh on his successor, Mahommed Mahmoud Pasha. Nearly three months ago one of Mahmoud's Greenshirts attempted to shoot Nahas in the street. When the young zealot, Abd El Kadar, was arraigned in court, Nahas instead of demanding the extreme penalty contemptuously asked damages of one piastre (5?). Lest the Wafd make too much capital of this disdain. Premier Mahmoud's Government hastily held Abd El Kadar for criminal trial...
Like many another Rightist leader,Emilio Mola, 49, was not born in Spain. His father was a Spanish officer in Cuba, his mother Cuban. After a mildly distinguished career in the Spanish army he won distinction and his general's sash fighting Abd-el-Krim in Morocco in 1926. Just before Alfonso XIII's flight from Madrid, Emilio Mola was chief of police in Spain, won the title of "the most hated man in Spain" for ordering Civil Guards to fire on the students. No monarchist, he was placed on the retired list in the early years...