Word: bagdad
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thousands of Iraqi crowded Bagdad's dirty streets, weeping and beating their breasts over the sudden death of 27-year-old King Ghazi I. Iraq's council of ministers announced that the next King would be Ghazi's three-year-old baby boy, Feisal II. For 14 years, until Feisal comes of age, Iraq will be ruled by a regent chosen from among royal uncles and cousins, who may easily fall prey to Iraq's Anglophobe troublemakers. How successful the British may be in educating Feisal to love England remains to be seen, but they will...
Last week speed cost England dearly. Late one night, a few days after his return from Kut, where he had officially dedicated a 1,615-foot dam which will irrigate the now-dreary site of the Garden of Eden, Ghazi set out from the royal palace in Bagdad in an open sports car. He was on his way to Harthiyah Palace, a few miles from town. As he zoomed past a crossing, he lost control of the car, shot off the road smack into an electric light pole. His skull was crushed and he died within an hour. It took...
Died. Ghazi ibu Feisal. 27. second King of Iraq (first: his late, famed father Feisal, placed on the throne by Great Britain in 1921 at the instance of "Lawrence of Arabia"); near Bagdad; in an automobile accident. Ghazi loved speed, had a Mercedes coated with phosphorescent paint, a U. S. Auburn, a plane fitted for acrobatics. No. 1 feat of his 5-year reign: holding a balance between Arabs in his kingdom (about the size of California) who esteem Britain, hate Britain (and rioted after Ghazi's death). Heir: his 4-year-old son Feisal, under the regency...
...troubadour for God, is inspired to start the first Children's Crusade to Jerusalem. He recruits tens of thousands of moppets, sweeps across France like a locust plague, accepts slave-traders' transportation to the Holy Land as a miracle, dies of fever as the flabbergasted Caliph of Bagdad good-humoredly pretends to surrender in the name of the Virgin Mary...
...unlettered tailor's assistant in Cairo, Crooner Abdul-Wahab has since amassed a fortune by composing tunes which were a hybrid of Oriental and Western music. He put the songs in screen romances and, with himself in the leading role, soon became the matinee idol of Cairo, Bagdad, Damascus, Jerusalem and outposts...