Word: sheiking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unscrupulous Virginia grandee, a male and female racketeer (Warren Hymer and Ethel Merman), a naive agent of his solicitors who loves the Virginian's niece (Ann Sothern). On the boat, Eddie barely escapes death at the hands of the racketeers. In Egypt he is lured to a sheik's palace, narrowly misses being boiled in oil by the sheik, being murdered by the sheik's prospective son-in-law. He escapes in an airplane. Safe at home, he uses his millions to build an immense ice-cream factory where he feeds an army of young ragamuffins...
...canvas last week in the Westchester Institute of Fine Arts at Tarrytown, N. Y. Entitled Nightmare of 1934, the work was signed Jere Miah II. The anonymous artist had great fun with a typewritten explanation of his picture that referred to mythological characters known as The Chief Mogul, Sheik Morgue En Taw, Har Rywa Llace, Sir Huge Onson, and Old Egghead...
...Saud, ruler of the Nejd. Abdul Aziz ibn Abdur Rahman Al Faisal Al Saud, Knight Grand Commander of the Indian Empire, better known as Ibn Saud, is a towering figure, 6 ft. 4 in. in his sandals. His simplest method of holding tribal loyalties is to marry the sheik's daughter. He has taken to wife over 100 of them in the past ten years, divorced most of them (no disgrace in Arabia). Because he has given up camels for fast bullet-proof motor cars in conducting desert warfare, his favorite wives follow the flag in a close-shuttered...
First serial rights for North and South America went to United Feature Syndicate Inc., whose Syrian-Sheik General Manager Monte Bourjaily outbid King Features, Bell Syndicate, NANA, NEA. United Features promptly resold The Life of Our Lord to enough U. S. newspapers to avoid, giving first publication to a magazine. Book rights went to Simon & Schuster. The Life of Our Lord will start to appear in about 300 U. S. newspapers on March 5, continue in 13 installments of a little more than 1,000 words each. Had he published The Life of Our Lord in 1849, Charles Dickens would...
...Eagle and the Hawk (Paramount). What the sheik was to the comparatively repressed cinemaddicts of the early null the aviator is to audiences now. The contemporary hero does not entirely gain by the comparison. He is covered with grease and what he has to say for himself is frequently drowned out by the uproar of machine guns and propellers with which the talkies so constantly belie their name. In this picture routine shots and noises of planes taking off, landing, crashing, planes upside down, on their noses, in hangars or at war with each other serve almost to obliterate...