Word: jerusalem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...exclamation. Ama was a wine vessel used in the early Christian Church, also a medical term for "an enlargement of the semicircular canal of the internal ear." Quoted from George Eliot's Daniel Deronda was Hep, a cry of the Crusaders, derived from the Latin for "Jerusalem is destroyed...
According to the DeMille theory, the Third Crusade started when a Holy Man (C. Aubrey Smith), presumably Peter the Hermit who lived 100 years earlier, toured the courts of Europe and persuaded a dozen kings to besiege Jerusalem. Richard Coeur de Lion (Henry Wilcoxon) was the last to enlist and did so for no better reason than to escape a marriage with King Philip of France's sister Alice (Katherine DeMille). This turns out to be most advantageous. Before embarking at Marseille, Richard gets a boatload of cattle and feed for his army by marrying the daughter...
...first arrives when Saladin (Ian Keith), the Saracen leader, kidnaps Berengaria. Richard hurries a siege tower, ladders and catapults to the walls of Acre, from which Saladin's soldiers shower arrows, spears and boiling oil. The second comes when, finding that Saladin is not in Acre but Jerusalem, the cavalry of the two armies meet in a head-on collision on the edge of a ditch into which a quorum of men and horses roll with neighs and yelps. With these two scrambles out of the way, there is not much left to happen. Saladin, who turns...
Quick as chameleons to make names match their surroundings, Jews in Palestine were reported last week to be rapidly changing to names more Jewish. One Leslie John Martin, who adopted that name as useful in the U. S., last week in Jerusalem was happy again as Joshua Goldstein...
...Rome to prominent Islamites who for one reason or another have been run out of the Great Powers' colonies. Last week these sloe-eyed clients of the sloe-eyed Duce were zealously trying to recruit for him fierce Arab troops for use as mercenaries against Ethiopia. In Jerusalem, however, the Emir Abdullah of Transjordania, who keeps his throne with the aid of British bombing planes, lashed out with an interview which made prime reading in London...