Word: amina
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Second member of Egypt's royal family to die within a week. Her cousin, Princess Amina Bahruz Fadel, 61, was killed two days earlier in a plane crash off Terracina, Italy...
...Ahmed Salem, biggest Cairo sensation of the decade, came to its quaint close last week. The sloe-eyed, romantic Egyptian public loves a love story. This one was dished up hot and fresh every morning in court when pomaded, silk-shirt-wearing Ahmed Salem's expensively gowned wife Amina rushed in and was permitted to embrace the prisoner passionately just as the judge was taking his seat. Ahmed stood accused of "bribery, forgery and perjury" in selling to the Egyptian police as hard steel helmets a quantity of cheap and flimsy iron headgear. But to the Cairo populace...
...Egyptian press along with tales of how the Beauty Queen loved her present and fourth husband so dearly that she was having him fed in jail with food sent over from Cairo's most expensive restaurant. It was Husband No. 1, a Syrian millionaire, who left Amina so well off that ever since she has been living the life of a female Tommy Manville. "My Ahmed dearly loves music," she explained to Egyptian reporters, bug-eyed at her jewels, "so I have installed a powerful radio receiver in a teashop near his cell." Every afternoon, the Beauty Queen dashed...
...Ahmed Salem's guilt. One of his partners, with whom he had quarreled, spilled the whole story of how they used forged Egyptian War Ministry stamps to pass off their shoddy iron helmets as the tested and approved steel article. However, by the time the trial ended Ahmed & Amina were so nationally popular as great lovers that Egyptian justice forbore to crack down hard. Ahmed got, not death, but two years at hard labor...