Word: baghdad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Once upon a time, in a mountainous land between Baghdad and the Sea of Caviar, there lived a nobleman. This nobleman, after a lifetime of carping at the way the kingdom was run, became Chief Minister of the realm. In a few months he had the whole world hanging on his words and deeds, his jokes, his tears, his tantrums. Behind his grotesque antics lay great issues of peace or war, progress or decline, which would affect many lands far beyond his mountains...
...however, will carp about the beauty of Renoir's production. From the very introduction of the credits at the beginning he shows perfect taste. The color photography is excellent; the musical background is oriental and exciting without sounding like Hollywood Baghdad-music; a thousand details contribute to the dominant impression of beauty. For this alone one should sell one's patrimony for a reserved seat at the Beacon Hill. --John R. W. Small...
While working at the Hotel Savoy in London, he met a young pilot, who convinced him to fly for Imperial Airways on its pioneering transcontinental flights. He piloted old De Hanvilland planes to such remote spots as Karachi, Bombay, Calcutta, Baghdad, and Demascus...
Because English weather did not agree with his ailing mother, Queen Aliyah, Iraq's sloe-eyed boy King, Feisal II, 15, decided to change schools, checked out of Harrow and flew home to sunny Baghdad to enter the Iraqi Military College...
...Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. The Business and Professional Women's Club poured tea in a villa where according to legend Giovanni Boccaccio met one of the voluptuous heroines of his Decameron. An Italian movie company held a special screening of an animated cartoon called The Rose of Baghdad, which allegedly had been inspired by the work of UNESCO. No one was quite sure what Boccaccio or Baghdad had to do with the organization's work; but then...