Word: arabia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Prince Mohamed Ibn-Abdul-Aziz of Saudi Arabia performs his princely functions in a princely manner. With his brothers, he attended the San Francisco Conference in long white robes and created an impression of stateliness and dignity, called on the U.S. State Department, inspected U.S. factories and Niagara Falls, dined with countless Arab-American groups, bought new automobiles, radios, phonographs and typewriters, lived splendidly in an eighth-floor suite at the Waldorf-Astoria...
...Simoom, the hot, dry Poison Wind of Arabia, whole parties of men sometimes perish together. Nature thinks that perhaps they lose so much water by sweating (up to two quarts an hour) in the dry air that they lose the ability to sweat and their bodies become defenseless against the heat...
...delegate had the right to place his country's final approval on the charter. Since the charter is a master treaty, governments at home must ratify it before it becomes binding. Simplest ratification procedure would be Saudi Arabia's: King Ibn Saud had only to glance at it and say: "Afarim!" ("Well done!"). The British Cabinet is empowered to ratify treaties, but only after Parliament has had an opportunity to discuss them and raise any questions it wishes...
...them, said Oliva-Roget, was Colonel William Frank ("Pete") Stirling, who, during the last war, was the good right hand of the late, famed T. E. Lawrence ("of Arabia"). Oliva-Roget said that Colonel Stirling was now known as "I'homme au chien" because, in full uniform, he walked the streets of Damascus with a big black...
Married. Princess Faiza, 22, beauteous third sister of Egypt's King Farouk (previously reported engaged to her third cousin, Nabil Ess-El-Din Hassan and a son of King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia) ; and the Hon. Ali Raouf, U.S.-educated Egyptian and wartime resident of Switzerland; in Cairo...