Word: darfur
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...best horse in the world, he did not want to succeed his father. Thereupon the British Army of Occupation skipped to the youngest of Ismail's twelve children, chose Fuad to be sultan and in 1922 made him King of Egypt, Sovereign of Nubia, the Sudan, Kordofan and Darfur. Thus the great-great-grandson of an Albanian tobacco peddler, the great Mohammed Ali, became the first sovereign in Egypt since Cleopatra died of an asp bite...
...brain! To the Cherrells, who had sound ideas on income (which they pronounced "ink 'em") but thought more of Service to the State, Wilfrid was not a catch. More, a horrid rumor about him began to be bruited about the London clubs: threatened by a Moslem fanatic in Darfur, he had turned Moslem under pressure! Letting England down, what? Worst of all, the fellow had written a poem about it, had the impudence to publish it. The ensuing scandal ran his book up into a bestseller. Of course most decent men sent the scoundrel to Coventry. But Dinny stuck...
...Henry Herbermann, president of American Export Lines, came a pair of Royal Arabs, Leila II and Ibn Nava, mare & stallion from the stables of Ahmed Fuad, King of Egypt, Nubia, the Sudan, Cordova, Darfur...