Word: harem
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...stapleages have kooky titles: Once is not Custom, Miss Brown to You, Panic in the Harem. Within a few days after the current exhibition opened at the Galerie Arnaud, more than half of Downing's compositions were sold...
...miles from King Lukengu's seat, Mbawota, 25, a royal wife since childhood and mother of one of Lukengu's many sons, threw her arms wide in joy and happily declared: "Mputukanga has guns, and the King has only spears." Emboldened by the breakup of the royal harem, the King's Bakuba subjects are holding back taxes and their traditional gifts to the king...
...small harem of his official residence in Lagos, three of the four apartments remain vacant. He has nine children by the wife he married in 1934, has never taken the other three wives allowed by Moslem...
...Harem Asylum. Author Thayer is a fascinating raconteur of diplomatic lore; he knows about the envoys who used to smuggle silk stockings for their Russian mistresses into the Soviet Union via diplomatic pouch, and about Sir Mortimer Durand, onetime British minister in Teheran, who agreed to extend political asylum to 300 dissident members of the Shah's harem. Thayer is equally enlightening about diplomatic immunity (even corpses are immune from autopsies), espionage (one of his favorites is the operative who transported his supply of invisible ink by impregnating his socks with it), the character of embassy receptionists (they...
...heavily on aphrodisiacs. In keeping with Arabian face-keeping, the oil-rich Imam arrived in Rome last month with an entourage of about 90 assorted Yemeni, including several Cabinet ministers, scimitar-bearing guards, three of his Queens, 23 concubines (who, according to the Italian Foreign Office, are not genuine harem types, "just slaves"). The Imam spends his time in Rome's Villa Margherita clinic, where a dozen doctors, both Yemeni and Roman, diligently labor to resharpen the Sword of Islam. Meanwhile, the women lounge around a beach hotel near Rome, relishing television, ice cream and high-calorific Italian cooking...