Word: whisk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. AbdelKader, 88, painter, whose grandfather, Hussein, Dey of Algiers, fled his throne after swatting the French consul with a fly- whisk in 1827 ; after long illness; in Atlantic City. Brought to the U. S. in 1902 by the late Oscar Hammerstein to sing in grand opera, he squandered a $200,000 inheritance, fractured his skull in a train wreck, and, down & out, became an Atlantic City character, lived for the last eleven years rent-free in a corner of one of the municipal airport hangars...