Word: farida
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last year's most singular and striking novels (TIME, June 24, 1946), seems to have written this psycho-thriller with his left foot. A khamseen howls for days in Cairo, wearing tempers thin as the hot, gritty sand seeps through the doors and windows of the Pension Malika Farida. On the fifth morning of the storm, Adela Manasse, wife of the pension's proprietor, is found dead in her tub, naked and smiling a "kindly" smile. How did she die and why did she smile? Original Sin explores this problem amid swirls of windblown sand and snarls...
Born. To King Farouk, 23, and Queen Farida ("The Only One"), 22: their third princess, third non-heir to the throne; in Cairo...
...also disclosed that Ahmed Salem had sought to flatter Egyptian royalty by designing special silver-rimmed helmets for young King Farouk and Queen Farida. Their Majesties' helmets were to have sported the Egyptian royal coat of arms "to facilitate identification in case either royalty became a casualty...
Last week, to celebrate his 21st birthday, handsome, whimful Farouk gave ?2,000 "for the purchase of shoes for the barefooted." Loyal Queen Farida, Queen Mother Nazli and the King's four hazel-eyed sisters scraped together ?750 for the same good cause. The King held a reception, too, but he didn't attend. He had jaundice...
...young King hung about his neck the Grand Cordon of Mohammed Ali-highest honor Egypt can bestow. Proudly Sabry Pasha proceeded to the Chamber of Deputies to deliver his King's short speech. The Chamber was packed, and brilliantly. In the visitors' section sat beautiful Queen Farida, demure in a white veil; the jeweled wives of Egypt's aristocrats; diplomats in all their brocade; generals in all their braid. The King sat a few feet from the rostrum...