Word: persia
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...Ambassador quoted a plaintive verse from Persia's 14th-Century poet, Shams edDin Muhammad, known as "Hafiz...
...seen Persia," said a dreamy G.I. to Correspondent Joel Sayre as their ship entered the Persian Gulf, ''was a swell big marble layout in the moonlight with a built-in pool. Birds was singing, but not too loud, and everything smelt wonderful. Some guys with turbans was taking it easy on cushions. They had whiskers and they was having a smoke out of them jars with the hose on them and they was smothered in wonderful-looking broads . . . wearing them long peekaboo pants. Sitting on the floor was a three-piece orchestra playing Midway music. Standing out front...
...just as TIME was the first U.S. magazine to be printed for our troops in Australia, in India, in Persia, in Egypt, in Italy, in Hawaii and the Philippines, so once again TIME was the first American magazine to be printed in France for our troops in the European Theater of Operations...
...concert violinist. In pursuit of the bluebird of happiness, he has wandered far afield. In addition to fiddling on transatlantic ships and in European cabarets, he has been a professional claqueur in Vienna, a croupier in Nice, a politician's secretary in Prague, a war reporter-photographer in Persia, Ethiopia, China and the South Seas, a malt salesman in Venezuela, a soldier in his native Czechoslovakia, a lecturer on democracy in the U.S. He is currently with the U.S. Army in or near Paris...
Harold L. Ickes, Secretary of the Interior and Administration jack of many trades, received a three-month-old Russian bear cub by plane from Persia, a gift to the U.S. Army from the Red Army, addressed to Ickes as U.S. Zookeeper, one of his least known odd jobs...