Word: harems
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sensation throughout Morocco, but the general anxiety was made acute by the fact that Ahmed was the favorite nephew of famed and beloved "Mokri the Blind," for years the incorruptible and discerning examiner of all maidens put forward by their families or tribes as candidates for the Sultan's harem...
...Bangkok the towering eight-sided throne of Siam was reverently prepared to receive a new occupant, the former Prince Pracha Tipok, brother of the late King Rama IV, who died without leaving a male heir (TIME, Dec. 7), after abolishing the royal harem and breaking the ancient Siamese tradition that the King should marry one of his sisters or at least a half-sister...
Hoary Siamese croaked again, as they have croaked throughout the 15 years of King Rama's reign: "Behold what comes of a Siamese King with an English education! Fate has doomed Rama, who abolished the harem of his fathers...
...years ago he quitted his sumptuous palace and well-stocked harem at Teheran, came to Paris, and, like many another, was reported "deeply shocked" at what he saw and heard there. Six months later he had succeeded in shocking in return all but the most blase inhabitants of Paris...
Siam, whose king translates Shakespeare while foreigners carry on his government still has its Eastern foibles. One of the most fundamental traditions, that of the harem, the present king has modified after the Oxford manner. Possibly, the high cost of educating young princes abroad caused this scion of a prolific family to be so far converted to the doctrines of Malthus, as to content himself with one wife...