Word: omar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Capstan Navy Cut 2.30 Omar...
...Manhattan, one Omar Lutfey, restaurateur, emerged from a speakeasy, saw Patrolman William Dunn, flung himself to the ground, gnawed the policeman's leg, roared, "I'm a lion...
Sword-swashing Arabs poured from the Mosque Omar, swooped on the Jewish quarter. Nine Jews and three Arabs were killed, no persons injured...
Three Arab policemen and a Jewish officer were guarding the narrow lane that passes the Wailing Wall of the Temple in Jerusalem, most sacred as shrine of the Jewish faith. The Arabs sat in silence, wishing they were in the nearby Mosque Omar where thousands of Moslems were celebrating the eve of Mohammed's birthday. The lone Jew paced slowly up and down, pensive in the heavy Palestine dusk. He looked at the aged stones of the Wailing Wall where the day before 10,000 Jews had gathered as part of the fast of Tisha...
Suddenly hearing a low crescendo of oices, the officer whirled toward the new gate leading from the Mosque Omar to the lane, shouted a hoarse phrase at the drowsing Arabs. For a moment they stood horror-struck, then fled. Through the gate poured a screaming, howling mass of Arabs, flaunting banners that flapped like big bats in the twilight. Down the lane they roared. Vainly an old beadle tried to halt them, was seized by powerful dark hands, hurled aside. Two Jews bowed in prayer at the altar were savagely beaten. In a frenzy of plunder the Moslems burned prayer...