Word: bagdade
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...forgot the cares of state, frolicked with his two children, took airplane rides, wrestled (the chief Mongolian recreation) with old cronies, played the guitar and sang old songs of the glorious days when his forebears ruled Europe as far as the Oder and Danube Rivers and Asia from Bagdad to Burma...
...Bagdad beggar who masquerades as a prince (played with characteristic swaggering gusto by Ronald Colman) is a professional adventurer whose resourcefulness and cunning are limited only by the extent of the script writer's familiarity with some of the old Douglas Fairbanks pictures. When the spurious prince sets out to seduce the queen of the dancing girls (Marlene Dietrich), he chucks her roguishly under the chin, calls her "my lady of the moonlight," and describes the lyric delights of life in his mythical kingdom. When he wishes to fool the ruthless Grand Vizier (Edward Arnold), he shoplifts the necessary...
Kismet is luscious to look at. And more often than not its fantasy falls victim to its opulence. Old Bagdad looks suspiciously like the inside of a Hollywood nightclub...
...homes; at the all-Soviet Union boxing championships and the even more popular grand chess tournament; in the lobbies of the movies, where the new Soviet Sky of Moscow told the story of the battle for the capital in 1941. and the old U.S. Jungle Book and Thief of Bagdad pictured the adventures of Sabu. At the U.S. Army Air Forces' new bomber bases in western Russia (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS), G.I. Joe chummed up with G.I. Ivan. U.S. Businessman Eric Johnston continued to buzz around the Soviet Union, impress his hosts with his smoothly plain talk (see BUSINESS...
...Rashid Shari in Bagdad, a barefoot urchin cries his wares: Al Mukhtar Min Reader's Digest. Sales are brisk. He will be sold out the second day. His success is another sensation of the sensationally successful U.S. Reader's Digest (domestic circ. 8,000,000): a skyrocketing demand for its Arabic edition...