Word: arabian
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...dead King's boots were tied heels to the front in the stirrups of his pure white Arabian horse and the procession began to move, paced by the dull boom of a single cannon, fired every minute. Glubb Pasha, British chief of the Arab Legion, wept openly, wiped his eyes with his red-and-white checkered legionnaire's headdress...
...Prince Who Was a Thief (Universal-International) is the kind of frothy, nonalcoholic, Arabian-nights cocktail that Hollywood has shaken up a thousand and one times. Brusque handclaps still bring on the harem dancing girls; Tangier bristles with flashing scimitars, wicked potentates, skulking cutpurses, rococo palaces and phrases...
...songs Shoshana sings are the kind that Jewish men & women have sung since the days of David and Bathsheba: prayers, laments, love songs, or songs that tell a story, such as The Magic Carpet-an account of the exodus of modern Yemenite Jews from their home on the Arabian peninsula. Few in the audience can understand the Hebrew words, but Shoshana's gestures, mobile face and throbbing voice make them exciting listening anyway...
...Toren, playing the disenchanted mistress of an idealistic French colonel (Lee J. Cobb), and the scene is Damascus in 1925 under the cloud of bitter French-Syrian warfare. Gun-Runner Bogart runs afoul of Colonel Cobb in both love & war, while a murky gallery of black marketeers, informers and Arabian fanatics (Zero Mostel, Nick Dennis, Onslow Stevens, et al.) snuffles ominously through the background...
Fairservis' theory is that the Afghanistan region was well-watered and fertile at the dawn of history. Civilization spread from the West along the Arabian Sea, through Afghanistan and Baluchistan into northern India. He suspects that it also spread northward into Central Asia, and may have reached China through Soviet Turkestan...