Word: arabia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mortimer did not have to live in barracks because he had a wife at whose house he was supposed to spend the night. Nobody thought much of his occasional remark that "there are too many females on wheels in this world." For that matter the late, great "Lawrence of Arabia" who died in a motoring accident (TIME. May 27), was also a woman-hater, was also annoyed by women cyclists, and also used to tear over the roads. Five months ago Mortimer started suiting action to his words. In succession he stole several cars, all of which he used briefly...
...power of gold and clever dealings. Seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines gave him ample opportunity to speak authoritatively on that subject. His reorganization of the internal administration of his kingdom; his wise utilization of the control of the caravan routes that led from Egypt and Arabia to Phoenicia and Syria; his great commercial undertakings as middleman and carrier; his zeal for monoplies; and all in all with his faith in the Lord laid the foundations of his vast national wealth and showed his people and the world that indeed here, as the scriptures says...
Married. Abdul Aziz Ibn Abdulrahman Ibn Faisal Ibn Saud, King of Saudi Arabia; and the daughter of Sheik Nawal el-Shaalan of Damascus; by proxy, in Damascus, where 40 sheiks represented the absent bridegroom. Conqueror of Yahya the Imam of Yemen last year (TIME, May 14, 1934), creator and builder of modern Arabia, towering, bespectacled Ibn Saud has married and divorced more than 100 times, has never exceeded the limit of four wives at one time allowed him by sacred custom...
...Arab revolt that Lawrence directed, and for whose success he received credit, was in the making long before he arrived in Arabia. When Lawrence, in order to get to Arabia, engineered his release from work in the intelligence service in Cairo, the Arabian revolt had prematurely broken out, was hampered by lack of direction, lack of leadership, lack of military experience. These factors Lawrence and his associates supplied. Choosing Feisal, grave, tactful son of the Sherif of Mecca, as the best of the Arab leaders, Lawrence developed tactics that his friend Liddell Hart, English military expert, later characterized as those...
Left. By "Aircraftsman Shaw" (Thomas Edward Lawrence), War hero of Arabia who died in a motorcycle crash in Dorset, England (TIME, May 27): $36,684, mostly to his brother...