Word: sheiking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Abdul Aziz Ibn Abdulrahman Ibn Faisal Ibn Saud, King of Saudi Arabia; and the daughter of Sheik Nawal el-Shaalan of Damascus; by proxy, in Damascus, where 40 sheiks represented the absent bridegroom. Conqueror of Yahya the Imam of Yemen last year (TIME, May 14, 1934), creator and builder of modern Arabia, towering, bespectacled Ibn Saud has married and divorced more than 100 times, has never exceeded the limit of four wives at one time allowed him by sacred custom...
Whenever Sheean suggested anything to his syndicate, the North American Newspaper Alliance, it would be vetoed unless it involved dashing across deserts in sheik robes. Wanting to go to China, where the Kuomintang Revolution was sweeping up towards Shanghai from the South, he had a hard time persuading his bosses that "personal adventure" awaited in the Far East. Eventually, however, he managed to turn the trick, got a drawing account, set out to interview Sun Yat-sen's widow, the delicate Soong Ching-ling; Borodin, the Russian adviser to the Kuomintang; Eugene Chen, who had been...
ROMANY-Lady Eleanor Smith-Bobbs-Merrill ($2.50). Gypsy wildness and English country life in a novel that is about one cut above The Sheik...
...where King David once fought Absalom and where the British Crown now rules the mandated territory of Transjordan. Suddenly across the vineyards, the wheatfields and the deserts crackled news that the British Government of Palestine had lent $500,000 to Transjordan. To horse and to camel leaped the Arab sheiks, whipping their beasts hell-bent for Amman, the capital. Practically every tribal sheik in the country was in the mob that stormed the house of Premier Sheik Abdallah Sarraj, demanding a cut of the $500,000. "Our people are starving," they shouted. "Things are terrible. Give us our share...
...Sheik: "An oath was taken." Eddie: "I didn't take it. Search...