Word: arab
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Moroccan nobles uttered passionate but unavailing prayers, last week, as a typhus epidemic spreading from the Arab slums of Fez entered at last the cool and sumptuous palace of the Sultan Mulai Yusef, where such luxuries as fountains, tinkling behind screens of marble fretwork, lull the inhabitants into a disregard of occasional vermin potentially laden with typhus bacilli...
...course, politically and economically, there is a serious conflict of civilizations, differently yet earnestly realized on each side. On the Arab side, the present passing contest was both a racial and religious war. On the part of the French, it was an imperialistic war. Yet in the war itself, these issues fade because the outcome was never in doubt. By virtue of numbers, the French would win. But as a matter of curiosity it is interesting to watch a powerful modern nation slapping legions onto desert soil to crush a savage mosquito...
From the native chieftains Il Benito received "the traditional royal gift, presents of unminted gold." Likewise a coal-black Arab stallion was presented to him-a splendid beast, covered with a red, white and silver cloth on which was embroidered: "To the Carrier of Water to Dry Lands...
...through thick and thin, from the night the bellowing tuskers mill and trample in their first stockade after crushing the life out of Ali's father. Together the two weather a Pacific typhoon; a plunge from a railroad trestle in their boxcar; a 100-mile race against an Arab horse; a pulling-match with four draft horses; a cinema tiger-hunt that turns serious...
...When we are in a dilemma and uncertain what road to take, we turn and carry out the Arab saying, 'The sword is more truthful than writings...