Word: arab
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this thick plot another ingredient was added when the electrician who had installed Schenzvit's radio committed suicide. In his house the police found charred papers showing Italian writing. For months there have been rumors of Italian agents subsidizing riotous Arab leaders to embarrass Britain. The police, looking next for a "beautiful blonde spy" said to have been in Schenzvit's confidence, declared: "We have crossed the trail of one of the most important and alarming espionage rings in the history of the Near East." Among other things, Schenzvit was "plotting to free Palestine from Britain...
Eaton's Expedition Sirs: ". . . Captain William Eaton. Under his leadership and the Stars & Stripes, the capture of Derna was made by 10 U. S. Marines, 38 Greeks and 400 Arab mercenaries" (TIME March...
...consisted of a Colonel Leitensdorfer, a Tyrolese colonel of engineers, a medical officer (probably Mendrici), Lieut. O'Bannon, U. S. Marines, Midshipman Pascal Peck, U. S. Navy, a Marine non-commissioned officer, six Marine privates, 25 cannoneers (including three officers), 38 Greeks (including two officers), Hamet, a friendly Arab, and 90 men, an Arabian cavalry detachment under Sheik El Tahik and about 200 footmen and camel drivers, 107 camels and a few asses...
...Scott record so far released to dealers, Twilight in Turkey and Minuet in Jazz. The minuet is a wild variation of Paderewski's Minuet in G. Twilight in Turkey expresses, according to Composer Scott's program notes: ". . . a crowded square . . . twilight is setting in ... Arab barters with Arab . . . prayer time is approaching . . . camels are resting ... a group of dancing girls are entertaining ... an Englishman gets lost . . . traffic is heavy . . . the afternoon heat is still felt. . . ." Recorded but not yet released are equally odd Scott numbers called Powerhouse, Toy Trumpet, Reckless Night Aboard an Ocean Liner...
...Pathan, Burton escaped five bandit raids, performed the complicated Moslem rituals letter-perfect (a slip-up meant being crucified), did not return to England to capitalize on his fame or to refute a new assortment of rumors that he had robbed a Cairo post office and murdered an Arab who saw through his disguise. Instead he headed an expedition into unmapped Somaliland. succeeded where five previous attempts had failed in reaching Harar, saved himself by a feat of flattery from being killed. On another expedition into Somaliland, one of his officers was killed, two were badly wounded and Burton...