Word: saleikum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Neudorf, physical culture expert, will take the part of "The Wrestler" in the play. In addition to Mr. Neudorf, there is Ricard Boonisar '29, a pure blooded Assyrian, who will teach the cast how to pronounce difficult Arabian names. The pronunciation of such words as "eyewallah", "istagfarrulah", "marshalla", and "saleikum" puzzled the play-producers and began to loom up as an unsurmountable obstacle, until the bio-linguist Boonisar was discovered. He came to the aid of the perplexed actors, and for the past week has been drilling the cast of "Hassan" it the intricacies of oriental speech...
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