Word: bagdad
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this time a wordy battle was going on in Insull's apartment between Mrs. Insull and the spectacular Mme Zahra Couyoumdjoglou, wife of a Bagdad date merchant who has been a bosom friend of Samuel Insull since his arrival in Athens. Mrs. Insull had wanted her husband to surrender and take his chances in the U. S. courts. That seemed too prosaic for Mme Couyoumdjoglou who arranged the Odyssey of the Maiotis...
...Hamad Obadie. Stocking merchant. Born in Bagdad...
...story sneering at one & all. Innocently she eggs her son into spilling a bucket of fresh fish over the fiancée's dress, finally trades Count Mario for her son's guardian. Good sequence: Ann Harding watching her first lover take off on a flight to Bagdad which ends in a fatal crash a few seconds after the picture starts...
...brother and personal adviser, that AH ibn Hussein who was King of the Hejaz for a year (1924-25) after his father Hussein abdicated and before Ibn Saud drove him out. Among the Arab clique; who stalk between the slender pillars of the King's Palace in Bagdad, Ali is rated an Anglophile. Against him are the Finance Minister, the Army Commander and the leaders of the Arab Nationalist Party who hate Irak's alliance with Britain...
...courtiers closely watched 21-year-old Ghazi I to see whether he had the will and the talent for juggling. He had been raised by a British governess, had worn Eton suits in Bagdad, played tennis. Mistrustful Arabs hawked wild rumors last month through Irak that he planned to marry a British woman. Last week King Ghazi ended that by stepping into his Throne Room before the members of his family and his Cabinet and betrothing himself to Adviser Ali's second daughter, his own first cousin, Princess Alija. Since she had lived all her life behind a veil...