Word: arab
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gift, a $250,000 clinic, given to Hadassah, international women's Zionist organization, is destined to serve all creeds and colors. Jerusalem's swart Arab Mayor Nashashibi spoke a few words in troubled English, thanked Donor Straus "for often having given to all people in Palestine help and comfort . . . thus creating friendship among Jerusalem's citizens." Great Britain's High Commissioner to Palestine, Sir John Robert Chancellor, spoke too, praised the Zionist movement which is in high favor in Great Britain...
Near Cairo, Egypt, last week, the police commandant discovered, living alone in a six-foot shack, an Arab who said he was born at the opening of the American Revolution (153 years ago) and who remembered the massacre of the Mamelukes by Mohammed...
...When we were about fifty miles south of Zubeir, shots rang out fired at a distance of about 200 yards, but nobody was in view owing to the undergrowth. Our Arab driver immediately turned the car around and with great presence of mind, swerved and went full speed...
...there, with a tall Gael in the middle dominating matters of selection. And the runner-up to Will Fyffe was the farce of Arthur and Morton Havel, who also took to the two-a-day when New York was unmoved by "Anything Your Heart Desires". There are tumblers, Arab being this week's nationality, and there is a ventriloquist seal that limitates a lamb, a horse and a bee. The seal also blows out Dunhill lighters, which proves that there's so much good in the worst of us it hardly behooves any of us to talk about the rest...
Parched and stinking, Bahrein Island barely breaks the surface of the Persian Gulf. European pates soon addle, uninsulated from its vicious sun. Before its troughs of rotting oysters, queasy European nostrils quail. Impervious to sun and stink, Arab traders hunker down, paddle the bubbling compost, comb it with their fingers...