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Word: saida (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Princess Chivekar who had named her in a divorce suit. Born on a Kansas Farm, Sidi Wirt married and divorced Harry Williams, Kansas City newspaperman, married Sugarman John D. Spreckels, inherited his estate, married Prince Chakir in Constantinople in 1923, has figured in Eu- ropean news as Cabaret Dancer Saida Worth, lately as Mme. Saida...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 16, 1929 | 9/16/1929 | See Source »

...Saida (Sidon), Syria, 600 beautiful and unmarried girls pine for husbands. There are none in Saida. Sadly they gaze across the Mediterranean and sigh for the United States. The Syrian quota is full. Desperately determined, the girls would sail to the three-mile limit and invite matrimonially inclined Americans to choose their brides. This suggestion is said to have reached the Near East Relief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SYRIA: Cupid's Bow Taut | 6/25/1923 | See Source »

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