Word: pasha
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There is considerable confusion as to just who this reseal is Miss O'Hara, who answers, to the title of Princess Mah Jongg, has her sights set on the wrong fellow (Paul Christian) for some time while palling around with the pasha and military governor of Bagdad (Vincent Price). When the Black Robe boss turns out to be somebody else (John Sutton), Christian gets the Princess and Sutton and Price get theirs...
Justice in Time. Paris' famed Cirque d'Hiver was persuaded to lend its ring and five lions-Pasha, Prince, Romeo, Pigalle and Hamed-for the legal demonstration. "Never turn your back on Prince," admonished Circus Manager Alexandre Bouglione as Steinmann prepared to enter the cage. A breathless girl in black rushed up to wish the trainer bonne chance. "This," shouted the lawyer for the defense, "is all irrelevant," but nobody paid any attention. A court bailiff pulled a green dossier from his overcoat pocket and settled down to take notes...
...Ismet Pasha works hard to be popular. At least 5,000,000 portraits of him, in formal evening attire, adorn Turkish parlors and offices. Occasionally the President drops into a coffee shop to feel the common pulse. Most Turks still prefer to talk about their late great dictator, whose spectacular personal rule has been replaced by Inonii's bureaucracy, which rules by the collective and painfully slow decision of its thousands of ministers, secretaries, under secretaries and clerks. The consequences are best embodied in a popular Turkish word, yavas (take it easy). Exasperated Americans refer to Turkey...
...newsmen's bench will be groaning with reserves. Jaytoo "Pasha" Snail, Alexander C. Hamberpotte, S. W. and R. A. Green--famed brother battery that burned up the league last year--and perennial player-coach Bumbling S. Gotnocuts are sure to see action...
...divorced last fall because she had borne him no sons, last week remarried in Cairo. Her new spouse: Ismail Shirene Bey, a minor official in the Egyptian premier's office. Both Fawzia (sister of Egypt's King Farouk) and her new husband are descended from Mohammed AH Pasha (1769-1849), the Albanian adventurer who founded the present Egyptian dynasty...