Word: harem
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...have these triumphs celebrated in Yildiz, for centuries the most glamorous and sinister harem in the Ottoman Empire, was the neat idea of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk ("Chief Turk"), the progressive Dictator who put Turkish men in derby hats...
Last week incorrigible male correspondents distressed the feminists on whom they were reporting by turning up a precise account of what harem life in Yildiz was actually like under Abdul Hamid, written by Philadelphia-born Princess Djavidan Hanum* who married Khedive Abbas Hilmi II and knew Turkish royal harems as few non-Turks ever have...
...Abdul Hamid became more & more a prey to his fears." related Philadelphia's harem Princess. "The Sultan kept a revolver in his hand by night and by day. . . . He shot his own child when the little one lifted a revolver that lay on the table. The playful hand might be the instrument of a woman's revenge and the Sultan knew better than anyone else that no tool is too weak to inflict a death wound. . . . This fear, this perpetual watchfulness, required that the concubines must be changed from night to night, so that his very pleasures were...
...entrance of the harem he was welcomed by the Sultan's mother. Then he passed slowly between bejeweled rows of women, a man who cared little for the revelation of women's beauty. . . . His impenetrable majesty forbade any redeeming contact...
...their slave girls chanced to please him, tradition required that he should seem to notice nothing-indeed it would have been highly improper to show any sign of a new attachment in the presence of a reigning favorite. Every mood had to be controlled in the harem. The chief slave girl was the go-between and she informed the lucky girl of the honor that awaited her. ... A new career was opened to her. ... In other ways, too, it was a momentous time. Only virgins were sold as slaves, and although life in the harem-with its peculiar atmosphere, preoccupations...