Word: mohammedanized
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...Mary Lamb became a devout Mohammedan. Even then her nerves were high-strung: she was much upset when her Grandmother Field remained an Unbeliever. But Mary soon found a new interest: from the names on gravestones she began teaching her younger brother, Charles, the future author of the Essays of Elia, his letters...
Government. Too sickly to attend school, he was tutored in Turkish and in military strategy by a disinherited German nobleman-cowboy; a Turkish scholar taught him Asiatic lore. Thus primed, in 1935 Hathaway went to Bombay, thence to Tibet and Turkestan, where he fought with a bloodthirsty Mohammedan chieftain against the Bolsheviks. Captured, he spent 116 days in solitary confinement in a Soviet prison, made his lucky exit via the Gobi desert to Shanghai. Whatever the facts of his curious adventures, Author "Ramal" is a vivid writer, nearly rivals the fantastic imaginings of Frederic Prokosch's The Asiatics...
...late Turkish President Kamal Atatürk and tough King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia. Ibn Saud dined with a woman for the first time in his life when he sat down with the Countess of Athlone. Tactful "Aunt Alice" (to George VI) veiled herself like a model Mohammedan woman while in Arabia. (Back home she mildly startled England by becoming the first member of the royal family publicly to approve birth control.) London papers, which would never dare fake such a story, have asserted several times that Edward VIII when Prince of Wales proposed marriage to Athlone...
...Lion has been a teacher, soldier, politician and peanut-farmer. He hates Communists. In a recent debate on the fate of the Communist Deputies, he roared: "What France really needs is toimport a few more good anthropophagites like me and we would eat 'em alive." As a good Mohammedan, he has three wives and seven legitimate children. "Two wives," says Diouf, "are a necessity for every normal man. A third is apt to be expensive and thefourth is a downright luxury." He loves practical jokes, such as collecting a huge crowd of Frenchmen on the banks of the Seine...
Jidda, chief port of Saudi Arabia, is too scorching hot for tourists, and death is traditionally the penalty for any non-Mohammedan who should venture inland from it to Holy Mecca, birthplace of Mohammed. Jidda harbor is protected by two miles of treacherous reefs, and gingerly last week the chugging little steamer bearing Bert Fish went threading in through the narrow, twisty channel called "Jidda Gate." The blinding white and torrid town, where every window is latticed against the sun, is a maze of narrow streets into which tall stucco houses jut at crazy angles...