Word: sultanate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Once upon a time Sindbad the Sailor set out on his Arabian Nights adventures from Basra. With Mr. Crane in Basra were his son John and the Rev. Henry A. Bilkerd, a Reformed Church missionary from Kalamazoo, Mich. They planned to set off at dawn for the Sultanate of Kuwait, 85 miles distant, despite the fact that nomadic and warlike subjects of the Great Sultan Ibn Saud of Nejd and the Hejaz were thought to be marauding not far off. Apparently Mr. Crane judged that his party would be safe, and with the best reason: in 1926 Sultan Ibn Saud...
...Turkey. At Constantinople, men who knew of the beauty of old Byzantium, working for Art Dealer Sir Edward Joseph Duveen, dug earnestly. In the large square between Saint Sophia's and the Sultan Ahmed Mosque they found two crumbly piers of brick & stone, supports of the once magnificent Byzantine Baths of Zeuxippus...
Last week Kemal spoke less gargantuanly. First he opened Parliament. Then sonorously he recalled the triumphs of his regime-Sultan overthrown. Republic proclaimed, Calif overthrown, the Church disestablished, polygamy abolished, the fez abolished, women unveiled, and a new Capital built at ancient Angora. Finally the President reported progress in his incessant strivings to "Westernize Turkey." Proudly he declared that 12,000 teachers are now instructing Turks how to write and read their language in Occidental ABC's, though with the same phonetics as of yore...
Thus all danger of too potent emanation from the magic stone into the Sultan of Muscat was cleverly avoided...
...relative of the member, Mr. Tsuneo Yamamoto, had been present at Blarney Castle, last week, when the petty Sultan of Muscat (Arabia) visited the Blarney Stone and emplanted a most peculiar kiss. Mr. Yamamoto was in a position to reveal that the Sultan of Muscat gingerly placed in contact with the Blarney Stone only the tip of his cane and then cautiously kissed the stick's big gold handle...