Word: arabization
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...definite style note is the new high-crowned hats, adaptations of Arab fezzes, pill boxes, Cossack and clown hats, now sweeping France as copies of the Camel cigaret slouch hat are sweeping U. S. department stores. According to smartchart scouts, the originator of the season's high hattery is the lovely Comtesse Francois-Guillaume de Maigret who persuaded Maria Guy to adapt a Tunisian Chechia on her return from an African vacation, and wore it with devastating success at Parisian race tracks. Other milliners hurried in with other high hats. ¶ Plaid evening dresses are enormously popular. In colors...
...desert Arab, the American or European woman is utterly devoid of charm. There is no mystery about her. She shows not only her thoughts but her bones...
...family name was Lawrence; to Arab warriors he was Aurans, Emir Dinamit, ''the World's Imp"; newspaper Warwicks dubbed him "the uncrowned King of Arabia"; some of his immediate superiors in the British Army called him every epithet in the calendar; now he answers only to his legally changed name of "Shaw." An archeologist of the first rank, he is now a mechanic and "the associate of menials"; once a colonel, he is now, by choice, a private; with a reputation that could still be cashed in for much fine gold, he is content with his army pittance of 60?...
...England is all wrong. Though a brilliant, omnivorous student with an enormous and accurate memory, though he won Oxford's highest scholastic honor (a fellowship at All Souls), scholars would not call him a scholar. He wrote two-thirds of Seven Pillars of Wisdom, his history of the Arab revolt, at odd moments during the Peace Conference at Paris; the introduction was written in an airplane flying from Paris to Cairo. At Reading railway station, the following December, the two-thirds-finished MS was stolen. He set to and rewrote the whole thing in three months? 34,000 words...
...Mahmoud commanding the ?th Division is half-Albanian by birth and a consumptive; an able officer and a gunnery expert; but a vicious scoundrel, and will accept bribes." Chafing at the restrictions and routine of army life in Cairo. Lawrence cast an envious eye at the Arab revolt just getting under way across the Red Sea. He made a general nuisance of himself till he got ten days' leave. He headed straight for Feisal's army, was received by Feisal with the question: "And do you like our place here in Wadi Safra?" Said Lawrence: "Well...