Word: ul
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Daventry 75 miles from London the Government-controlled British Broadcasting Corp. went into action early this week with a fine sputter of pro-British Arabic. Guest star on the opening program was none other than Seif-ul-Islam Al-Hussein, the son of the Imam of Yemen...
Since 1909, when the Young Turks drove out Abd ul-Hamid II, there has been no harem in Turkey. Constantinople's Seraglio is now being converted into one of Istanbul's museums. British Investigator Penzer, Master of Arts, Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, snooped all through it time & again, took photographs where he was allowed, drew plans, read everything relevant he could lay hands on, calls his report the fullest to date. Much of that report was of interest only to historians and architects, but some of it makes eye-opening reading to vicarious snoopers and plain...
...life. Some of these prisoners succeeded to the throne after a lifetime, "when they had all but lost the power of speech, and their minds and bodies were like vegetables." But now, says Penzer, the days of the harem are over. (Only one extant: in Mecca.) When Abd ul-Hamid's big family was broken up, most of his wives went back to the land. And since there is no more harem, there are no more eunuchs. While he was in Turkey, Penzer looked high & low, despite all his efforts "met only two, or possibly three, of these strange...
...Page Cotton '38, M. Hollingsworth Cornell '37, John L. Dampeer '38, Thomas H. Dowd, Jr. '36, Nicholas Friedman '37, William T. Glendinning '38, Wesley L. Furste '37, James E. King, Jr. '36, Ellis W. Jones, Jr. '37, John D. Ogilby '38, Frederick R. Pleasants 3G., Murray Richards uL., Ethan A. H. Sims '38, Peter L. Scott '38, John B. Vincent '37, H. Stewart Voetglin ocC., and Jose K. P. deVaron '38. The tickets are prices at $3.00 a couple and $2.00 stag...
George C. Scott, Jr. grE.S. outclassed the rowers on the Charles yesterday as he turned in the best time of the day in the trials of the three year class singles races to beat Arthur V. Meigs uL by one length. Thomas J. Darcey, Jr. '36 and F. D. Anderson 1L were the other winners, Darcey leading the second heat in the 155-pound class, and Anderson winning the first in the first heat of the three year class...