Word: arab
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Posterity will be indebted to Augustus John for the great lineaments of many of Europe's great men. His etching of Yeats as a young man is already famous. His crayon drawing of the late T. E. Lawrence in Arab headdress gives that long-jawed little man all his well-earned dignity. When the practical Lord Leverhulme, soap king of England, cut the head out of John's portrait of him in 1920 so he could get it in his safe, most of the artists and art dealers in London went on strike for 24 hours...
...grey-haired Edward J. Neil, 37, whose boast it was that neither he nor his father had ever worked for anyone but the Associated Press. Long-time a Manhattan sports writer, he won a medal and the title Commendatore from Marshal Badoglio in Ethiopia, went on night raids with Arab sharpshooters in Palestine, reported King George's Coronation, and scooped the world on the Rightist capture of Bilbao by filing his story under fire...
...Saudi Arabia, in Palestine, Syria. Egypt and the other Arab lands of North Africa many Arabs faced the New Year last week with little food and less money, but plenty of others had new radio sets, many of them two. All were delivered absolutely free by suave efficient young men who set them up, tuned and locked them at a certain wave length, and departed smiling amiably...
Yahya, the Imam of Yemen is a wily Arab potentate whose triangular territory near the southern end of the Red Sea includes the famed coffee city of Mocha. The Ethiopian war and the growing power of Italy on the Red Sea have made Yahya the Imam an important character. Playing his nuisance value for all it was worth, he played British against Italian agents, finally threw in his luck with Italy last year. But Yahya the Imam has many sons, with all of whom he is at outs. British agents had swarthy spectacled Prince Hussein in London in no time...
...While Arab public opinion was horrified. British public opinion approved, for several reasons. British authorities in Palestine say that the Sheik Farhan was a leader of terrorist activities against such few Arab bigwigs as are known to be friendly to the British, or at least willing to negotiate. The British say that among the "arms" which Sheik Farhan was found to "possess" was one engraved with the name of a recently-assassinated pro-British Arab leader, Radi Abboushi. Such suspicions and circumstantial evidence might not hang a man in England, but the Near East is the Near East...