Word: sheiking
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...spend $500,000 for the erection of a Marx Monument in Red Square, Moscow. On dit in Paris that Manuel, onetime King of Portugal, and the rotund ex-Shah of Persia went to Zelli's famed Montmartre cabaret, drank champagne, talked to the pretty girls. Butted in a sheik-like youth, asked permission to sit down. The monarchs assented graciously, the three talked much and at the time of parting said Manuel: "I am the King of Portugal." "I," said the Shah, "am the Shah of Persia." "Good night, gentlemen," answered the unruffled Frenchman, "The Grand Mogul bids...
...this is partly true for the perfectly sound artistic reason that it helps you remember that a Dago is Italian, a Grand Duke Russian, a Sheik Arabic, a waiter French. It keeps you from losing sight of the environment in which the events narrated take place. But an even more fundamental reason is that we like to be able to convince ourselves of familiarity with the unfamiliar. The French phrase becomes a mark of confidence in us and in the extent of our linguistics?particularly if it is discreetly translated in the next sentence. It is just one more...
...Traprock, discoverer of the fatu-liva bird and hero of My Northern Exposure, plunges into the passionate sands of the land of the Twin-Bedouins in search of love, adventure and the tomb of Dimitrino the First. His romance with Lady Sarah Wimpole burns like an incandescent lamp. Lions, sheiks and whiffle-hens bar his way, and after quite unbelievable exploits he is left alone with his memories. A take-off on the popular Sheik brand of fiction, adequately mirth-provoking though not quite so good as The Cruise of the Kawa...
Then your wife (husband) has a bookplate. Then it would be so nice to have separate bookplates for the children. Aunt Hepzibah, Grandmother (something nice and quiet for Grandmother), Cousin Ed (crossed flasks over a copy of The Sheik would really be best for Cousin Ed) - all join in the merry throng. Bookplates solve your Christmas present list for a year with only one comeback - the bookplate full of Greek statuary you sent by mistake to the friends who believe that Art should be draped. Then you begin comparing notes with others on their bookplates - collecting bookplates, even...
Three thousand Arabs gathered under the unfurled banner of the Sheik and demanded parliamentary government, expulsion of foreigners, equality of taxation...