Word: baba
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...perhaps half a mile, he reached (he said) a large, lighted chamber whence six other tunnels burrowed further into the mountain. Commanding the chamber was a monster urn up which the curious Bedouin clambered to peer in. Within?yes, the veritable heaps of gems and gold of Ali Baba's "Open, Sesame" story. Knotting a clutch of treasure in his burnoose, he next chipped a crack in his prison's rose-red sandstone wall, widening it to a passage which brought him out high on the slope above the valley of Petra. . . . The interest of treasure-hunters in his fabulous...
...picturesque figure was my new henchman; clad in a spotted and ragged old army tunle that carried the ribbons for the Croix de Guerre and several campaigns, he marched through the crowd without turning to the right or left. Exsergeant Harida baba Fassaltoui must have been very nearly six feet, six inches fall, with tremendously powerful shoulders and arms, which, contrasted with his thin and week-looking legs, made him look top-heavy. Most Arabs seem to have weak legs and very small feet, probably because of the fact that their ancestors invariably rode if they had distance to travel...
This paper was not surprised yesterday when its Limerick Contest idea was pounced upon with desperate rapidity by the direct descendants of Ali Baba and his forty thieves on the New York Journal...
...Lahore, India, when Police Superintendent Horton and his assistants were in the act of arresting Dhanna Singh, notorious leader of the Baba Akalis (Sikh zealots), a bomb which Singh was carrying exploded, blowing him and five policemen to pieces. Superintendent Horton escaped with injuries...
Single tickets for this concert are on sale at the University Book Store in Harvard Square. Symphony No. 5, in C Minor, Op. 67, Beethoven Three pieces for Orchestra, Liadoff "Kiklmora", a Folk Tale, Op. 63. "The Enchanted Lake", a Folk Tale, Op. 62. "Baba-Yaga", Tone Picture, after a Russian Folk Tale, Op. 56. Concerto for Planoforte, in D Minor, Mozart Symphonic Poem, "Wallenstein's Camp", Smetana