Word: ibn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Arabian King Ibn Saud of Hejaz and Nejd last week avoided another operation on his ailing eyeballs (previous operation in 1926), received with joy a prescription for "more powerful glasses" from Dr. Abdul Hamid Bey Fahmy, Cairo specialist...
...other members of the Royal Family, including the 25-yr.-old Crown Prince and three nephews of His Majesty who were treated for trachoma, last week kept Dr. Fahmy busy. He also removed a cataract from the eye of 70-yr.-old Emir Abdel Ibn Selim, Governor of Oniva...
...Henry Herbermann, president of American Export Lines, came a pair of Royal Arabs, Leila II and Ibn Nava, mare & stallion from the stables of Ahmed Fuad, King of Egypt, Nubia, the Sudan, Cordova, Darfur...
Author Bata Kindai Amgoza Ibn Lo-Bagola has had a hard, queer time. A black man but a Jew, he is a native of the Ondo bush, hinterland of Dahomey, in western Africa. His people, according to legend, left Palestine after Roman Titus' sack of Jerusalem (A. D. 70), fled to Morocco, to Timbuktu and farther. There, swallowed up by African natives, they still remained a Jewish sect, continued Jewish rites. Says LoBagola: they carry out the ceremony of circumcision to the letter, "although not in the same way as in Palestine today. Our rabbis permit...
...Author. Short, stocky, gleaming-eyed, with black mustache, frizzy white hair, Bata Kindai Amgoza Ibn LoBagola looks like a stout little Jew in blackface...