Word: omar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With Cramer in and Conant out. --Omar Bosola...
Rebels who had sniped at their enemies from the minarets of mosques showed surprisingly little resistance, gradually withdrew to the Mosque of Omar area, knowing that British troops were under orders not to desecrate those sacred precincts. In two days' operations nine Arabs were killed, no British. Arresting all men whose shoulders showed the bruises of rifle butts, Tommies put 300 suspects in a concentration camp on the site of King Herod's ancient citadel. Although a 24-hour curfew prevailed, the British command showed its regard for Moslem religious feelings by agreeing to a request...
...second splits when Clayton Reeves, a near-sighted English writer, whose father was Jewish, enters the Mosque of Omar, on the site of the Temple in Jerusalem. Three weeks before, Reeves's wife had died in Egypt. A sympathetic friend dragged him on a painful tour of the Holy Land - painful because Reeves's grief deepened in the grim and melancholy country and because he felt one of his rare epileptic attacks coming on. As he entered the Temple he felt dizzy, leaned on a pillar for support, realized he was fainting and looked at his watch...
...managed to make the styles sufficiently sound to be featured in a recent issue of Vogue magazine. Taking their cue from those unsung, expert, wholesale dress manufacturers of Manhattan's 7th Avenue who were asked last winter to guess what women would be wearing this fall, Hollywood designers Omar (né Alexander) Kiam, Irene and Helen Taylor turned out most of the dresses, gowns and coats for Vogues of 1938. Manhattan's supersmart John-Frederics and Sally Victor did the hats, Jaeckel the furs. Through the Modern Merchandising Bureau, 52 dresses, 24 hats and various accessories shown...
Everybody expected that the crisis would be reached during the noonday Friday (Moslem Sunday) service in Jerusalem's Mosque of Omar. The orthodox extremist Rabbi Moses Blau asked the Government to keep Arab villagers out of Jerusalem on that day, was told that the Government could not interfere in the religious affairs of the Arabs. Said the Rabbi: "That is the same reply I received on Aug. 23, 1929, just one hour before the big massacre of Jews began" (TIME, Sept...