Word: alexandria
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Born Sasi Naz Zulficar, the daughter of a prominent judge in Alexandria's Mixed Court of Appeals, Farida ("Peerless") had other drawbacks as a queen in Islam. Before her marriage she had shocked orthodox Moslems with her Western ways. She dressed in the latest Paris fashions, swam and danced with vigor, and mixed freely with the cosmopolites in Alexandria's foreign colony. Her courtship by Egypt's young King Farouk had been a riotous affair during which the two were often seen careering through Cairo in Farouk's snappy speedster or dancing together at Shepheard...
Alibi. In Alexandria, Va., Suspect James J. E. Davis explained to police why he could not have killed a policeman: he was eight blocks away at the time, robbing a gas station...
...only to come to grief again at the hands of George Washington's men. The question facing Britons now, says the Times, "is whether, and, if so, in what shape, it will reform . . . Very few societies have done this trick twice. None, except perhaps the Greek, with Athens, Alexandria and Byzantium to its credit, has done it a third time. The English have to do it a third time or perish...
...fear of such outbreaks or oppressive government measures, Jewish colonies in Egypt have been donating money to the government as anxious proof of their opposition to Zionism. Last week the Egyptian government announced that Alexandria's Jews had contributed $80,000, Cairo's $160,000, to the Egyptian "Soldiers' Welfare Fund." With the bundle of checks came a message: "Greetings to Egypt and her army, and an expression of loyalty to King Farouk...
...Shreveport, where he runs the Sanders Clinic. Within 40 days he had organized Louisiana's A.A.G.P., with himself as president. Last week, Louisiana's chapter of the A.A.G.P. was the first to hold a scientific meeting. President Sanders invited the 240 members to Alexandria to discuss "practical scientific subjects, not hifalutin brain surgery." Sample: Dr. D. G. Miller, who holds the country's first chair of general practice (at the University of Louisville, Ky.), warned that the most serious and most easily prevented mistake in obstetrics is "impatience and consequent meddlesome procedure...