Word: egyptian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nephew Dawes had promptly, diplomatically accepted. Promptest of all was Oxford University, which was to make Ambassador Dawes a Doctor of Civil Law almost immediately on his arrival. Simultaneously receiving the same degree would be Spanish Ambassador Alfonso Merry del Val, brother of the urbane and genial Cardinal, and Egyptian Prime Minister Mohamed Mahmud Pasha...
...more than 30 years, thousands of Negroes, dressed in purple silks, gold brocade, fancy headdress, strutted as members of the Ancient Egyptian Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. That their name and regalia were quite similar to that of the White Shriners,* bothered them not at all, until White Shriners charged imitation, brought suit against them. Four Texas Courts decided against the Negroes. They became worried. But, last week, Negro Shriners puffed out their chests, secure in the knowledge that their parading would never be stopped. For the U. S. Supreme Court held that White Shriners had been guilty...
...sages, Dr. James Henry Breasted, Orientalist of the University of Chicago and Dr. George Aaron Barton, Semitist of the University of Pennsylvania, debated on which was the older civilization, Egyptian or Mesopotamian. Dr. Breasted said that the Egyptians' technical attainments in medicine, art, science, sculpture and social organization predicted a civilization already ancient 5,500 years ago. Pharaohs mined copper in the Sinai Peninsula as early as 3400 B. C. Dr. Barton suavely pointed out that the Sumerians in Babylonia made gold and silver objects as early as 3500 B. C. and more beautiful than anything produced in Egypt...
...Similarly based on the Swiss code is the new civil law imposed on Turkey by Dictator-President Mustafha Kemal Pasha (TIME, Feb. 21, 1927). *Egyptian Prince Sabit Bey divorced himself in this convenient fashion from Mrs. Jean Nash, famed "Best Dressed Woman in the World," after they had been wed for a whole month...
...amassed information. Its Imperial Airways started weekly commercial service from Croydon Airport, near London, to Karachi, India, by way of Alexandria, Egypt. First passenger was Sir Samuel Hoare, British Air Minister, one of the few bureaucrats who actually fly.* He quit the India journey at Alexandria, to inspect the Egyptian section of the proposed Alexandria-Cape Town British trunk airway...