Word: abu
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Antonius says that the famed colonel's Arabic was far from perfect, would have deceived no one in Arabia. Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom is full of misunderstandings, defects, errors. The Lawrence account of his almost singlehanded capture of Aqaba, Mr. Antonius suggests, is bragging. Auda Abu Tayeh, ally of Feisal, planned the attack and, with Feisal's approval, executed it, independent of outside help. The Lawrence chronicle of British-Arab negotiations is "confused and chronologically impossible," his understanding of the forces in the background of the Arab revolt "palpably defective...
These mutual insults generated so much heat that finally last week neutral sub-chieftain Abu Khalid arranged a meeting near Jaffa. At the unexpected approach of British troops this meeting broke up, but at a second conference, in the parched hills of northern Palestine, matters were settled amicably. Each chief agreed to allow the other to retain the "Commander-in-Chief" title, but only over separate districts. Neither is now to give the other orders, although "requests for cooperation" will be heeded. To celebrate this "peace" in true Arab fashion, the two chieftains and their henchmen roasted a sheep...
This box was excavated by natives at Tell Abu-Maria, a village 20 miles west of Mosul. Another recent purchase is a collection of South-Arabian antiquities, including twelve short inscriptions on stone and small bas-reliefs on red sandstone...
...musicomedy performers. Prepared without either the gross exaggerations of a DeMille or the onyx convolutions of a Busby Berkeley, Chu Chin Chow is elaborate without being absurd. It relates the story of Ali Baba (George Robey) and the 40 thieves, exhibits the misfortunes which overtake the head thief Abu Hasan (Fritz Kortner) when he inflicts unjust punishment on his favorite dancing girl (Anna May Wong). Interspersed with songs, dances, oriental feasts and samples of British comic opera jocosity, it requires almost two hours for the thieves to reach their bath of boiling oil. U. S. cinemaddicts may find the photography...
...Abu Saad crisis grows hourly more acute. more complicated; then it seems to simplify itself into inevitable war. Walter Bullinger does his mild best but it is not good enough. If bright young Jane Campbell, his assistant, and not-quite-so-bright John Shorland had not spoken out of turn, threatened to give the world hell, there would have been hell...