Word: egyptianized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...responsibility while Governor of Bombay the arrest of Mahatma Gandhi, potent agitator. To Lord Lloyd's Cairo tea party there came an old and broken statesman who knew the British Baron's mettle. The 66-year-old statesman was Saad Zaghlul Pasha, leader of the Egyptian Wafd, a party which had just been returned to Parliament with a two to one majority. (TIME, June...
...assembled next day at a luncheon where spirits ran low. All were acutely conscious that the battleship Resolution was steaming toward Port Said from the British naval base at Malta. All knew that British Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain had just cabled in especially imperious vein* to the impotent Egyptian government. When Zaghlul Pasha rose, all emotion, the Wafd beheld how Pyrrhic was its victory...
...strangest feature of the book is Mr. Lindsay's own illustrations, mostly contained in the latter half where he goes maundering off after Egyptian hieroglyphics. They look like nothing or everything, according to the taste and fancy of the speller, my lord...
...became the first native Premier of Egypt in 1924. He resigned (TIME, Dec. 1, 1924) upon the exaction by Britain from the Egyptian Government of a £500,000 ($2,300,000) "fine" and other humiliating concessions because of the asassination by seven Egyptian students of Sir Lee Stack, Governor General of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan...
Rahman Bey. Fakirism has about as much relation to the theatre as have cats to cablegrams. Yet, since Rahman Bey is spreading the message of his Egyptian cult from theatre stages in the U. S., his efficacy as a show must be reported. He is an uncanny novelty, but he is not a very good show...