Word: abdullah
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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SHACKLED-Achmed Abdullah-Brentano ($2.00). "The burden of our ancient race is hard to bear," muttered Mustaffa Madani, the Shareef, descendant of the True Prophet. The day of the aristocrat had passed, the pride of Islam was quivering beneath the heel of the foreigner. But Mustaffa Madani would not make the concessions that might have brought him riches. So he hung on the edge of starvation, and wondered what was to become of his beautiful daughter when he had gone. Yet he would not forgive her when she married Hassan, the Dervish, who was "not of the lineage." Only when...
...Emir Abdullah, second son of King Hussein of the Hedjaz and elder brother of King Feisal of Iraq, faced a serious rebellion led by the Sheik of Es Salt...
Instead of using the magic carpet of the Arabian Nights, King Feisal of Iraq will fly over the Arabian desert from Bagdad to Amman in seven hours to meet his brother Emir Abdullah of Transjordania in a political conference...
Then, of course, the adherents of each party have their own peculiar tastes. Captain Achmed Abdullah has a breakfast, described as "a dignified, almost pontifical institution", consisting of "always fruit always eggs, always three cups of coffee, and always marmalade, honey or jam", while Jaseha Heifetz asks merely for quality not "always" successfully. Two cups of tea and a cigar satisfy. Ed Wynn, but Billy Sunday demands griddle cakes. Mary Garret Hay is perhaps the most unusual. Breakfast appeals to her "not only physically, but esthetically". She ecstatically insists that "a fine bunch of grapes or a golden orange, crisp...