Word: pasha
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ismail Sidky Pasha, back from London discussions (sometimes limited by Sidky's bladder trouble), embarrassed Britain by letting his spokesman claim that Bevin had promised Egypt sovereignty over Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. A quick denial came from the British, who had no intention of surrendering military or administrative control of this northernmost link in the prospective Nigeria-Kenya chain...
...miniatures of George Washington and His Times, which he finished in 1935. The set was presented to President Roosevelt by the Polish Government, and today hangs in Hyde Park. But the assignment Szyk enjoyed most was in 1924, when he was hired to paint El Glaoui, the Pasha of Marrakesh, Morocco. Sighs Szyk: "There were gazelles in the garden and dances of the bosom every night...
...British-sponsored state with suspicion). Abdullah I made a polite speech from the throne, carefully avoiding most of the Middle East's hottest issues, whereupon the court and guests proceeded to Marka airfield to review Trans-Jordan's British-trained Arab Legion. Its leader, Glubb Pasha (occidental title: Brigadier John Bagot Glubb, D.S.O., O.B.E.) stood next to His Majesty on the sun-scathed reviewing stand, picturesquely martial in a spiked helmet, with a long sword by his side. After the two-hour parade, everybody had lunch (main course: 56 whole roast sheep), while Trans-Jordan's masses...
Hashem, an Egyptian scholarship student here, started work two months ago for his Ph.D. in International Relations as training to become a representative of Egypt in the United Nations Organization. A fluent speaker of French and Arabic as well as English, he collaborated with Badaoui Pasha, then Foreign Minister of Egypt, in the report to the Egyptian people on the San Francisco conference...
Mahmoud Hassan Pasha was the proud Moslem. Egypt's jurist-diplomat wore gaudy ties, played with his microphone, ignored his advisers, spoke plainly and at length, thumped the table to emphasize points, reminded his listeners again & again that he had served in his country's high courts...