Word: bagdad
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week contract, under puttee-wearing Director David Wark Griffith, from $2,000 a week to a three-year contract at $4,000 a week, typed him for life as an acrobatic comedian. Grinning, he slashed, sprang and flew through such cinema classics as Robin Hood, The Thief of Bagdad, The Three Musketeers, The Black Pirate...
...Palestine terrorist campaign. Fortnight ago. however, French authorities arrested several of his followers, tightened the guard around his residence, appeared willing finally to cooperate with Britain in putting down any nascent Arab rebellion. This was inconvenient to the Mufti. He soon disappeared. He was reported to have escaped to Bagdad, and rumor had it that he might go from Iraq to friendly Saudi Arabia and there strengthen his forces for new Arab uprisings. But whatever he may decide to do, the Mufti is not a man likely to declare for the Allies and is destined to remain, unless cornered...
...hence an integral part of that great Empire which Pan-Arab leaders envision creating some day. One of its cities is Antioch, where Paul and Barnabas taught and Ben Hur raced his chariot. But the most important city of Hatay is Alexandretta, terminus of the never completed Berlin-to-Bagdad Railway, one of the best ports of the Levantine Coast, the natural sea outlet for Syria and for the upper Euphrates Valley of Iraq...
...automobile manufacturers, who get queer specifications from great and eccentric customers. At present the Derhams are designing a big grey limousine for Joseph Stalin, a duplicate in black for President Vincent of Haiti, a town car for Mrs. Henry B. du Pont and 15 open cars for a Bagdad Moslem who will rent them to Mecca-bound pilgrims...
...Mosul, an oil centre and political hotspot 260 miles up the Tigris from Bagdad, natives were told by agitators that the British had done away with their King. At high noon, an angry mob of Iraqi rushed the city's British Consulate, dragged out 52-year-old Consul George E.A.C. Monck-Mason, a trim, clipped civil servant whose 30-year consular career had taken him to most Near East trouble spots. Then they set fire to the building, and killed George Monck-Mason in the slow, brutal way in which Oriental mobs have for centuries disposed of those they...