What do these expressions mean? 1) "other side of Jordan" “I have stood on the other side of Jordan,” he remarked later, “in the land ruled by a rude Arab chief, where the police looked so like brigands that one wondered what the brigands looked like. But they did not ask me whether I had come to subvert the power of the Shereef; and they did not exhibit the faintest curiosity about my personal views on the ethical basis of civil authority". 2) "a quiet drive" A quiet drive began to restrict their admissions to law schools.