Word: ali
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Emphatically last week the Sultan had yet to be bought. With dusky guile his tribesmen pretended to welcome the Italian advance until the unknown General's column was well past Mount Mussa Ali. Then from all sides they struck. Two Italian mule caravans freighted with food and munitions were captured, according to bug-eyed native runners who reached Dessye. They said that the main Italian column, fighting in the classic hollow square formation Queen Victoria's troops used in the Sudan, managed to stand off the tribesmen with a loss of 200 native and white Italian troops. Dejected...
...second army bore straight in, parallel to the French Somaliland frontier, in an effort to cut Ethiopia's only railroad at Dire Dawa (see map, p. 18). Fighting as hard, suffering as much as the publicized troops to the north, they had captured the mountain of Mussa Ali last week and were slowly driving through desert country toward the railroad. Well aware was the Conquering Lion of Judah of the importance of this force. At Jigjiga, 65 miles from Dire Dawa, he had assembled the best equipped, best trained of his fighters, was preparing to make what many people...
Died. The Emir Ali, 64, onetime King of Hejaz, brother of the late King Feisal of Iraq and the Emir Abdullah of Trans-jordania; after long illness; in the Bagdad palace of his nephew, King Ghazi of Irak...
...theatres at which we'd like to see The March of Time are: the Kentucky, the Strand, and/or the Ben Ali theatres. The Kentucky theatre is the handsomest and therefore worthiest for you-but no colored people are allowed there as they are at the Ben Ali, and I'd hate for them to be denied seeing The March of Time...
...cinemaddicts. Its actors muffle their accents, sing with no more affectation than U. S. 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...