Word: mecca
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because non-Moslems are barred from Mecca during the pilgrim season upon pain of death; because Ibn Saud and his personal followers are so strict that they might be called Moslem Fundamentalists; and because few Christians care a whoop what happens in Arabia, news from the Land of Saud is always scarce, usually untrustworthy. Biggest Christian news of recent years was the 58-day trek of English Explorer Bertram Thomas across 900 miles of arid waste, famed for its weirdly noisy ''singing sands'' and called the Riilxi-aI-Khali or "Abode of Loneliness" (TIME. March...
...Bagdad, capital of the Kingdom of Irak, is a thriving beehive of 250.000 busy, haggling souls. Mecca, one of the two capitals of the Land of Saud, is a Moslem "show place" of only 60.000 which receives and scandalously mulcts each year some 70,000 pious pilgrims...
...exports were $27,600,000 for 1930 and imports $15,000,000, as against insignificant exports and imports for Ibn Saud's Kingdom which makes most of its money on pilgrims. Lackadaisical Moslem tribes in Malaysia are becoming markedly more energetic as their pious women constantly return from Holy Mecca and give birth to fighting half-breeds--an "invisible export" of the Land of Saud...
Completed as far as Medina in the Land of Saud is the "Holy Railway," paid for by Moslem pilgrims. From Medina they bus to Mecca...
...croquet mallet. Raising this on high he edged close to the thrashing, snorting creature and resolutely bashed it on the head until dead. Far from earning him a reputation for brutality, the exploit, reported the Gazette, "has made him the hero of the district and his home the Mecca for sightseers from miles around...