Word: arab
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Port Said's Al Salaam Missionary School, Egypt was threatened with still another Holy War. Vexed, Turkiya Hassan walked to the police, cried that she had been beaten because she had refused to be baptized a Christian. All over Egypt pious Moslems cried out in fury. The Arab Press squirmed with headlines like a parade of Arabic sea serpents: poor children were lured into schools and clinics for conversion; missionaries made use of hypnotism: French Catholics called Mohammed an impostor and vilified his faith. Two of the biggest newspapers are owned by Christians, nevertheless dared not let themselves...
Against the sands of the Yuma desert in Arizona, Metro-Goldyn Mayer has strung out an exciting story of the white woman who is charmed by the call of the desert and a wily philandering Arab in the person of Ramon Navarro. The story is old, the treatment is older, and not even a trio of the best second-rate stars in Culver City can give any more glamour to the exhausted Sahara, but withal "The Barbarian" now playing at the University Theatre in the Square is entertaining in a mild harmless...
Myrna Loy, who has probably appeared in more different lands in movie versions than any other star, is the lovely white woman who falls under the spell of her Arab dragomen escorting her into the sands where she is to meet Reginald Denny, her fiance. One anticipates she will be carried off to the tribe and married by force. She is kidnapped but a blow across the face convinces the Arab that she doesn't like fooling, and his prize goes back to her white engineer. With a price on his head Jamil returns to Cairo and just as Diana...
...many faiths. In his tennis club are 31 Orthodox Greeks, 31 Protestants, eleven Roman Catholics, ten Moslems, nine Jews, seven Gregorians, one Baha'i. Last summer he put on a Y. M. C. A. cross country race with policemen, army officers. Jewish and Arab athletes. The race began near the spot where first broke out the series of Arab-Jewish Wailing Wall riots...
...then worked his way for nine months at the University of Geneva, returned to the U. S. to go into advertising. Private in the French Army during the War, he was gassed at Verdun. After the War he started writing in Manhattan. One evening in 1924 he met an Arab, shortly afterwards went to Arabia for 15 months among the Bedouins and Druses of the Arabian mountains. Sympathetically curious if not credulously enthusiastic about magic, he went to Haiti for a year to find out about voodoo. He has also visited whirling dervishes at their monastery in Tripoli, Yezidi devil...