Word: alis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...international smart set's Lady Mendl, eightyish, tempted the palates of Vogue readers with her own recipes for some dishes that mother never even thought of making, e.g., Kidneys Ali-Bab ("brown one pound of veal kidneys . . . set aflame with a glass of brandy...
...Nehru Zindabad!" (Long live Jawaharlal Nehru) and "Sher-i-Kashmirl" (Long live the Lion of Kashmir-Sheikh Abdullah). Merchants took advantage of a good opportunity, strung their rugs from house windows for all to see and buy; some erected huge banners across the river, with slogans like "Welcome from Ali Mohamed-best Persian and Kashmiri carpets...
...years later St. Laurent built a 17-room house on the Grande Aliée, a cow-path then, but now Quebec City's most fashionable street. The house seemed large (the St. Laurents had only three children at the time), but Louis was looking ahead. Said he: "This is a house for a Canadian family." Within the next five years, he had two more children...
Trade. In London, Mahmud Ali, arrested for assaulting Abdul Matlie, explained to police: "We had a quarrel over a girl and he bit my thumb. So I bit off his nose...
Rodriguez Araya was expelled from the Chamber on a charge of having referred to Perón and his deputies as "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves." He went into exile in Uruguay. But La Prensa kept harping on his accusations. Said a lead editorial just before Perón's speech last week: "It is the national administration which is compromised by these charges. It is the national administration which is responsible for IAPI...