Word: arabian
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...lover of Oriental musk who beguiles his spare moments playing on the Arabian lute, Hyman Bloom loves to paint, with exuberant Oriental color, the gloomy, bearded rabbis and synagogue scenes that he remembers from his childhood...
...Clipper westward 31,500 miles through twelve countries to New York. The Army's G-2 considered the course secret enough to forbid the crew's talking about it last week on their arrival. Probable route was New Caledonia, Australia, the Dutch East Indies, Ceylon, the Arabian Sea, the Gulf of Aden, Arabia, Africa, the South Atlantic, and up from South America...
...hunting and fishing trips to Alaska and Canada, where Indian guides call him Captain Ogontz (Ojibway for wall-eyed pike). So far, motherly Mrs. Wood has blocked the General's every attempt to smuggle into his study a stuffed trophy of the chase. Other hobbies: riding his Arabian horse Kebar in the early mornings, driving his Ford sedan to his office at breakneck speed, and playing bridge, a game in which he invariably overbids, and into which he invariably plunges with his favorite expression: "Let's charge...
...German High Command reports," said a Red communique, "are Arabian fairy tales." The communique put German losses at more than 1,500,000 casualties, 6,000 tanks, 8,000 cannon, 6,000 planes; Russian losses at 600,000 casualties, 5,000 tanks, 7,000 guns, 4,000 planes...
This is the story no less of Isabel Burton than of her spectacular husband, translator of the Arabian Nights. But she was at least a match for him. They were as daft, disarming a pair of eccentrics as boredom with Victorian England produced...