Word: mecca
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...string of titles - Abdul Hamid II, Sultan of Turkey, Caliph of Islam, Prince of the Faithful, Master of the World and Custodian of the Cities of Mecca and Medina - but he was better known during his reign (1876-1909) as Abdul the Damned. He squatted within a triple-walled palace at Constantinople, amassed women (four wives, 233 concubines) and wealth ($112,000,000 in jewels, millions more in oilfields and other jiftlik, or crown lands). In 1920, after he and his sick empire had died, his numerous heirs began one of the most fantastic inheritance suits of all time...
...bought musical instruments for his kids. Guy, now 43, and sleekly handsome, started on the violin, now just stands in front of the band. Brother Carmen, 42, plays sax, and Brother Lebert, 41, the trumpet. Their first dates were at Lake Erie summer resorts. Later, in Chicago, the jazz mecca of the bootleg era, the Royal Canadians were interrupted one night by a gangland machinegun battle. Lombardo reassured radio listeners: "That . . . was our drummer...
Atlantic City, once a mecca for giggling cuties in Mack Sennett bathing suits, abandoned itself for five days last week to a ponderous appraisal of the female mind. The occasion: the annual Miss America contest. The prize: a $5,000 college scholarship offered on a take-it-or-leave-it basis. The winner: Miss New York City, a Hunter College graduate named Bess Myerson, who excels at the flute and pianoforte...
...Lalique glass-the expensive, ubiquitous, famed bric-a-brac of the 19203. The flashiest examples brought from $3,000 to $12,000. Two factories in France, equipped with every modern mechanical device, fed Lalique glass to an eager world. A sleek shop on Paris' rue Royale was a mecca to droves of cashheavy U.S. tourists (a U.S. businessman once hurried to the shop in search of an idea for a catsup bottle...
...London lights gleamed only in. patches around hotels, pubs, penny arcades. Around Piccadilly Circus, crowds, looking for lights, milled on one another's toes in the blackness. On Leicester Square, London's movie mecca, two beaconlike signs sliced the darkness. One said: "Gentlemen"; the other: "Ladies...