Word: sultan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sultan know it was my birthday?" Harmless humor, said Witness Smith, and cracked: "She'd be very difficult to dispose of in the ordinary army barracks...
Just a list of the cities we have visited: Rabat, Casablanca, Marrakech, Oran, Meknes, Oudjda, Algiers, Fez. We have spent a night in a Sultan's palace at Fez, we have visited the headquarters of the Foreign Legion in Sidi-bel Abbes . . . we have seen the Casbah in Algiers. . . . Three gals, two others and myself, drove all across North Africa from Casablanca to Bizerte. From Bizerte we flew over to Sicily. Bizerte was an appalling sight. ... At night ... the moon shines down on empty shells of white buildings with black windows...
Peacetime Ramadan in Egypt had children, rich and poor, wandering from house to house swinging red and green lanterns from poles, singing for candy and food. "Joy, oh joy," they would sing, "the Sultan's daughter is wearing a robe of bright scarlet red, bright lemon yellow. Oh, give to me as is your custom, and a very happy New Year to you." Now there is war: parents will not let their children out in the blackout; villagers do not like to give away any of their expensive, rationed food...
...Well, Shad," I said. (His name is Sultan Shad Hirant but I call him Shad for shirt) "What have you got on the ball today? Why so sad? You look as if somebody had stolen your last wife...
...Sultan went into a trance, staring intently into the crystal ball. He was silent for a long time. I thought for a minute that he had gone to sleep, but he finally began to speak...