Word: sheiks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Into one of the vitamin-mongering sanitary lunchrooms which steward the middle classes of Kansas City, reeled last week a strapping street sheik with Gershwin tintinnabulations at his fingertips. "Want coffee!" he pleaded. "Want coffee for a buggy ride! Thanks for the coffee! 'Thanks for the buggy ride'! Gimme a vitamin now, dearie. Need all the vitamins you got. Need a vitamin to take on a buggy ride. 'Thanks for the buggy ride.' THANKS for the buggy vitamins! Oh, Oh, OH! 'I had a wonderful time! Wonderful treat! Juh-huh-hust to hear the patter of hor-sez feet! THANKS...
Between Egypt and Italian Tripoli, just north of the great Libyan Desert, lies the tiny oasis-city of Jarabub, an excessively important water supply station for the trans-Libyan caravans. There in 1855 the potent sheik, Sidi Mohammed ben Ali ben Es Senussi el Khettabi el Hassani el Idrissi el Mehajiri, established the stronghold of his fraternity or sect, the Senussites, who continue to possess tremendous influence in the region...
Almost all men-from the strong boy who can bite pieces out of a crowbar, to the grubbiest, most dissipated little street sheik-believe that they secrete in their right arms a power that will maim and devastate. Some go through life without ever suffering a disillusion on this score; others have their prayer, "Just gimme a sock at 'em," gratified, but administer the sock only to find that it has small effect. It lands fearfully on the point of a jaw, and the recipient smiles and shakes his head as if a drop of water had landed...
...interlude is reported to have occurred when French airmen noticed hundreds of Druse warriors participating in the funeral of a sheik. A few high explosive bombs turned the funeral into a shambles...
Friends of the gentleman in question who read that slur with mounting fury were not unaware of the explosive buried in the word "sheik". Despite the Tribune's artful coyness, everyone knows that the word, due to its association with certain popular romances, cannot be employed without an implication of libidinousness. Unidentified! The Tribune obviously wished to suggest that the gentleman had crawled up behind the golfers with the idea of rising to his feet just as the camera snapped. If a gentleman known in innumerable homes for his geniality, probity and tact, is not protected on the veranda...