Word: pasha
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...horse, he was uncomfortably riding to the hounds across the rolling greens of Ireland as the guest of Hollywood Director John Huston. In the last five years, he has gone to even greater lengths in the interest of his column. He has bobsledded at St. Moritz, dined at the pasha's palace at Marrakech, French Morocco, and at the Marquis de Cuevas' fancy-dress ball at Biarritz (TIME, Sept. 14), he turned up barelegged, bewigged and dressed as an American Indian with a sign on his back: "Us Go Home." "It's simply amazing," says Buchwald...
Mustafa Kemal Pasha returned from his skillful but useless defense of Syria and asked for a job. "Get this man away-anywhere-quickly," the Sultan cried. The government hoped to save itself by submission to the conqueror; Kemal's unyielding patriotism endangered these schemes. So Mustafa got magnificent and meaningless titles-Inspector General of the Northern Area and Governor General of the Eastern Provinces-and was put aboard a leaky Black Sea steamer bound for Samsun, in remote Anatolia...
...most powerful influence among the Berbers is that of Si el Hadj Thami el Mezouari el Glaoui, the aged, cunning and ruthless Pasha of Marrakech. Once a bandit in the southern Moroccan desert, El Glaoui began helping the French in 1912, the first year of the protectorate; he sheltered some French citizens from possible slaughter by rebels. The late great Marshal Lyautey was so pleased that he put the onetime bandit in charge of his Moroccan troops. Eventually El Glaoui became the local ruler of a large territory, and acquired a considerable fortune from mine dividends, taxes and miscellaneous "gifts...
...British companies which handled all the dredging of Egypt's irrigation canals, Abboud badgered government authorities until they gave him some of this work. In six months, his company opened up 15 million. cubic meters of new irrigation, and the king awarded him the honorary title of pasha. In 1930,the British-owned Khedivial Mail Line, foundering in the Depression, invited Abboud aboard: he took over the management, made the company profitable, and has since built the fleet from six to 20 ships and bought 97% of the stock...
...Albania he visited the Turkish vizier, Ali Pasha, who "treated me like a child, sending me almonds and sugared sherbet, fruit and sweetmeats twenty times a day." Off the isle of Corfu he found he could take the lash of fortune as well as her caress. When the ship seemed certain to go down in a storm, and even the captain "burst into tears and ran below deck," young Byron, with as much bravery as bravado, "wrapped myself up in my Albanian capote (an immense cloak) and lay down on deck to wait the worst." On shore, his valor...