Word: mocha
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Yahya, the Imam of Yemen is a wily Arab potentate whose triangular territory near the southern end of the Red Sea includes the famed coffee city of Mocha. The Ethiopian war and the growing power of Italy on the Red Sea have made Yahya the Imam an important character. Playing his nuisance value for all it was worth, he played British against Italian agents, finally threw in his luck with Italy last year. But Yahya the Imam has many sons, with all of whom he is at outs. British agents had swarthy spectacled Prince Hussein in London in no time...
...Abie Walbert fon drous hinnich da Lechaw Kerrich drin secht, er gaibt gore nix drum fer maid hame nemma fon da picknicks, yusht's dade'n so narafich mocha bis er sie g'frok'd het. Da onner owet hot er aenie hame shnarra wolla fon dons on Shamrock, ow'r in blotz fon sawga 'Darf ich mit d'r hame lawfa, 'hot er g'sawt. 'Its akinda feicht tonight.' 'S maid'l is noh laenich hame, un so is aw der Abie." Translation: "Abie Walbert from...
This notably appeared at Mocha, Red Sea port of the Arabian land of Yemen. Its ruler, the Imam, has been pressed by Italy for weeks to permit Mocha to be used as a port for hospitalization and convalescence of Italian soldiers stricken with tropical diseases in Eritrea. Last week an Italian Naval flotilla sailed into Mocha to exert further pressure, whereat the Imam, wasting no time in appeals to Geneva, begged directly for British help. In a few hours British war boats from Aden raced into Mocha, overawed the Italian flotilla which withdrew. The British returned to Aden. Two days...
Explorer Harry St. John Bridger Philby has described the greater part of Yemen as "the worst mapped region of the inhabited globe." Its mountainous valleys are perhaps the most fertile in southern Arabia. Its almost deserted seaport of Mocha has become a synonym for coffee the world around. Coffee is still grown on Yemen's mountains but what little is exported goes through the port of Hodeida...
...police in a running machine-gun duel with the old gang, in the course of which the old gang is almost totally exterminated. Naturally, that Cagney trademark, rough treatment of the squooshy sex, is not neglected. In a scene which will feed the starved souls of Back Bay mocha-moochers, Jimmy drags a hopped-up moll across the room by her hair and boots her out the portal with the best kick since Albie Booth's winner of '31. In short, the film will amuse you from start to finish, beauty is represented by the lushy gangster moll, and Margaret...