Word: cadi
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...house came Sheik Mustapha el Maraghi, Grand Cadi of Egypt (sort of Chief Justice of the Supreme Mohammedan Court in Egypt), stepped into a waiting carriage...
...sped the cyclist, passed the carriage, threw the contents of his bottle (acid) at the Cadi who was badly burned about the neck, chest, left hand, suffered from shock...
...vehicular biped escaped but the Cadi gave the police a detailed description of him, and his arrest was considered merely a matter of time...
...gates by night and wander over the city, seeing how matters fared with the people. Or how, on the morrow, from his high throne he meted out reward and punishment to those whom he had found meritorious or wanting on the night before. Thus was justice given, alike to Cadi and fisherman, in a manner dear to the oriental heart...