Word: dervish
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...Seabrook regards them as primitives, with primitive knowledge and dark secrets which no civilized man can fathom. A onetime reporter and short story writer, his reports of his own adventures have been bestsellers. He has lived with a Bedouin tribe, with Druses in the Arabian mountains, in a whirling-dervish monastery at Tripoli, with Yezidee devil worshipers in Kurdistan, with voodoo worshipers in Haiti. During the War he served as a private in the French army and was gassed at Verdun. Other books: Adventures in Arabia, The Magic Island...
...this question, presented officially to the Turkish Government by U. S. Ambassador Joseph Clark Grew, the answer last week was as emphatic as dervish-hanging. Consistently progressive Mustafa Kemal Pasha, the Ghazi, "The Victorious One," promptly padlocked the three narcotic factories at Istanbul (once Constantinople), ordered most sweeping reforms...
...both teams letting out just about all they had in an effort to come through. Dartmouth came closer to succeeding, but even at that Yale, with Booth in action, cannot be said to be very far from a score no matter where the ball is. The little Elis' dancing dervish is never safe until after the whistle has blown...
...most incredible hardships with iron endurance. He sprang from the lowest level of society, and had the manners of a grandee and the epistolary style of a Machiavelli. He knew no enjoyment of life, a home meant nothing to him, his wants were as few as those of a dervish, yet he died of worry because he could not get the forty thousand pesos owed him by the Colonial Administration...
Heads Up! Routine musicomedy, nautical, garnished with splendid new numbers by Lorenz (words) Hart and Richard (tunes) Rodgers ("Why do You Suppose?" "It Must Be Heaven," "A Ship Without a Sail") dervish whirls by shapely Barbara Newberry, croaking comedy by Victor Moore who thinks a mutiny is an afternoon performance...