Word: nuri
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crisis in a nutshell, the Arabs on strike demand the cessation of Jewish immigration to Palestine and have put British High Commissioner General Sir Arthur Grenfell null sufficiently on the spot to make him welcome mediation between Britons and Arabs by the Foreign Minister of Iraq, Nuri Pasha as Said. This Moslem statesman sent up a trial balloon to test Christian public opinion by letting it be known in Jerusalem that he thought the British were on the point of closing the immigration gates of Palestine with a new policy of "No More Jews," temporarily at least. No sooner...
Temperamentally she was unable to push herself. As a child she sang arias because she liked to, not because she aspired to opera. Her mother who coached singers was responsible for her debut. Someone was needed for the role of Nuri in D'Albert's Tiefland. Flagstad learned the part in two days. After that she plodded along conscientiously, singing now in light opera, now in grand, taking what engagements she could get because she had a daughter to support by an early marriage which had proved unsuccessful...
...weeks prior, like an effort to gloss over the massacre. Last week came proof it was no such thing. The Assyrian trouble was quieted, but not a disturbance in lean, seamy-faced Feisal's heart. One afternoon in Berne, having consulted with his Foreign Minister General Nuri Pasha and his brother Prince Ali on the prospect of the League of Nations investigating the Assyrian deaths, Feisal became seriously ill with a heart attack. The 50-year-old monarch, 37th direct descendant of Mohammed, refrained from eating any dinner, retired early, felt worse. At midnight Death, searching among the cool...
...example just given by the greatest Empire in the world," cried Premier Nuri Pasha, representing King Feisal of Irak, "deserves, and richly deserves to be studied and followed.... Our hearts are full, brimming with gratitude...