Word: dervish
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Creep out of bed and Madame La Grippe holds fortified positions in my head and vitals, whirls in a derisive dervish-dance in my ears. Slowly to breakfast and slowly to class, shivering. Fever mounts to my face after I am seated and for minutes I struggle with an oppressive longing to leave and go back to my garret...
...college bicyclers. Today Harvard is reviving the Magna Carta of Cambridge pedestrians, the Lowell law against bicycling in the Yard, and henceforth the hateful two-wheeler is banished from the highways and byways. No longer need walkers and truckers, freshmen and presidents, stand petrified with fright while the whirling dervish streaks by streaming dust and dirt on all who watch it pass. Nightmares and dreams of sudden death are over, and all's quiet along the Charles...
...Between the team of Huey and the Priest, we have the whole bag of crazy or crafty tricks possessed by any Mad Mullah or dancing dervish who ever incited a tribe or people through illusion to its doom-Peter the Hermit, Napoleon Bonaparte, Sitting Bull, William Hohenzollern, the Mahdi of the Sudan, Hitler, Lenin, Trotsky and the Leatherwood God-here they are-all boiled down to two with the radio and the newsreels to make them effective and if you don't believe they are dangerous . . . you don't know the temper of this country in this continued...
When he gets down to post-Civil War times, which even milder historians characterize as financially scandalous, McConaughy's progress becomes a dervish-whirl in a mist of vituperative facts. An index of his malefactors would read like the Social Register. Too over-violent throughout to be persuasive, Who Rules America? chokes over its own too-choleric mixture of fact and fanaticism...
...gemsbuck. There were many horses (735 by the program) and many a zebra. There were such subhuman animals as The Men from Mars (albino Negroes), Cliko the Bushman (who reads philosophy when not exhibiting himself), giants, giantesses, midgets, snake charmers, contortionists, fat ladies, a Whirling Dervish, the Rubberneck Man. five Ubangi women with wooden discs in their lips (circumference: 14 in.) and The Vegetable Man whose aberration is paring potatoes to look like rosebuds...