Word: arabs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Popular opinion, generally the collective term for vague, often incorrect, knowledge, lumps Arabs and Turks together as one people. The same authoritative source is responsible for the traditional idea that the Arab is an unambitious, emotional nomed good as the inspiration for a "Sheik" and excuse for a Valentino. This popular opinion has prevailed to such an extent that the Arab, like the Turk, has been discounted as a ruler, in the case of Palestine for a recent example, in the belief that he has little aptitude for much beyond tent-life and pillaging...
Under this government India was filled with a growing unrest. When the war broke out and India, contrary to the expectation of Germany, remained loyal, when self-determination was held out to the Arab States, and when Egypt had a prospect of independence, the Indian began to demand that his system of government be radically changed. Recognizing the seriousness of the situation the British government sent Lord Montagu to India in 1918 to study the country and return a report to Parliament advising what course to pursue. In June, 1918, Lord Montagu presented his report, which ranks with Lord-Durham...
Immediately upon the cessation of hostilities in the near east, Dr. James H. Breasted of the University of Chicago, at the head of an archaeological expedition, proceeded from Bagded to Aleppo, through the newly constituted Arab state, and now he returns to America with the announcement that he he has unearthed new tablets that "will make the Oriental Museum in the University of Chicago the finest of the kind in the United States." For a long time the University of Pennsylvania has held that place, its claims founded upon its discoveries in Babylonia and its possession of the Nippur tablets...
...CONN., June 14,-One small New London street arab caused a near feud between the two camps today. He has been hanging around the boathouse for some days and into his hero-worshipping mind came the great idea of stealing the flag from the Yale boathouse. In ways known only to himself he accomplished his object single-handed, while thirty Elis remained rooted to the spot in amazement and allowed the urchin to flee. Automobiles were quickly secured however, and then the chase began. But the unwieldy cars were of no avail against the resourceful Penrod...
...Cleo Mayfield inflection. P. F. Nash '21 as Rev. Thomas Thomas of Thomaston, Ohio, a meticulous minister, and Ford Hibbard '20 as the merry scamp. Tom Tom, Jr., provide some of the best laughs in the show. C. C. Ryan '20 was picked for the role of Keeptotherite, an Arab traffic-cop, principally on account of his name...