Word: arab
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when a Briton discovered oil in Mosul (whence the word muslin), not far from the legendary site of the Garden of Eden, in the shadow of Mesopotamia's Kurdish Hills. Then the slippery Sultans of Turkey ruled, as Arab provinces, what is now Irak. The European oil companies were so greedy to get the Sultan's oil that they checkmated one another's efforts until June 1914. The line-up then was Britain, The Netherlands and Germany. Months later the War started, eventually eliminating Buyer Germany and Seller Turkey. After the War the double-crossing was resumed...
...view, for that old-time song-&-dance man (Follies) modestly limits his appearance to a few skits. But his wife, little Ray Dooley, has all sorts of funny things to do. At one point she is hoisted to the top of a pyramid formed by half a dozen jibbering Arab tumblers. Teetering just under the proscenium arch, she is the picture of comic terror. Again, as an aged Merry Widow, she is tossed all over the stage by a full chorus, while irrepressible Bobby Clark (& McCullough) leads her through a bumbling waltz...
...Ammon where King David once fought Absalom and where the British Crown now rules the mandated territory of Transjordan. Suddenly across the vineyards, the wheatfields and the deserts crackled news that the British Government of Palestine had lent $500,000 to Transjordan. To horse and to camel leaped the Arab sheiks, whipping their beasts hell-bent for Amman, the capital. Practically every tribal sheik in the country was in the mob that stormed the house of Premier Sheik Abdallah Sarraj, demanding a cut of the $500,000. "Our people are starving," they shouted. "Things are terrible. Give us our share...
...Garrett was capable of self-induced trance, which to Dr. Rhine seemed to be self-hypnosis. In the trance state she underwent a change of voice, manner, posture and her utterances made it appear that she was invaded by the spirit of a deceased Arab who called himself Uvani. Dr. Rhine was not much concerned with whether "Uvani" was in fact an Oriental ghost, or the alter ego of a Schizoid personality, or a simple hallucination. He wanted to know what Mrs. Garrett in her normal state and in her trance could do with his cards. Findings...
...Mayor of Jerusalem!" was the agitating slogan which last week rang through the Holy Land. Optimistically the Jewish Telegraphic Agency thought that "Many of the Arab leaders now favor appointment of a Jewish Mayor. . . . If a Jew is appointed Mayor of the city, he will be the first Jewish head this ancient city has had since the time of the Second Exile...