Word: sultanate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Career. In 1882, when Egypt was a backward province paying heavy tribute to the Sultan at Constantinople, when the Sudan was the happy hunting ground of murderous, dancing dervishes, the 21-year-old ZaghJul took part in his first revolt. It was led by Colonel Arabi against the Khedive and the British, was squelched by Viscount Wolseley...
Babe Comes Home. George Herman Ruth, variously known as the Home Run King, the Biffing Bambino, the Sultan of Swat, the Mogul of Mayhem, etc., does poorly in a film recounting the life story of a baseball player. Mr. Ruth is not even qualified to hold a cinema actor's lipstick...
...fete. Fifty thousand electric bulbs were festooned along the streets and from the minarets of Stamboul.* Even at Pera† the Diplomatic Corps and foreigners generally decked their establishments, in honor of Kemal. He came, at last, steaming up the Bosporus on a cream white yacht, once the Sultan's. Twelve large and forty small steamers followed. Turkish gunboats blazed salutes. The whole city rang with Kemal's nickname of honor: "Ghazi," "The Victorious...
...Turkey will continue to advance along the path of social and political development, guided by the light of science and civilization. I proclaim this sacred purpose from the palace which formerly belonged to the 'Shadow of God' on earth [The Sultan], but is now the property of the Turkish nation, which is not a shadow, but a solid fact...
Casey at the Bat (Wallace Beery). As the original Sultan of Swat, Wallace Beery struts what was once the Great White Way, flirts with the girls of the Florodora Sextette, misbehaves toward his sweetheart Camille (Zazu Pitts) in a sporty buggy, thus forcing her to trudge a dusty homeward path; in short, does all the inept things possible for a lionized lump. The moot point is, why did he strike out with the bases full? The breath of scandal is finally deodorized by Luck and Love. The home-run king reigns on in left-handed magnificence...