Word: gordons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...loving, fun-seeking Sudanese there were color and fun aplenty. It was Leilat el Isra, anniversary of Mohamed's visit to the seven heavens on his human-faced steed el Buraq. It was also the birthday anniversary of Mohamed Ahmed el Mahdi, whose fanatic desert dervishes destroyed "Chinese" Gordon's British army in the Sudan...
...abbayas streamed into town on camels, horses and rickety provincial trains. Ten thousand Sudanese jammed the big dusty square before the stuccoed, white-domed tomb, brightening the drab town with pink, blue, yellow and green galabias (skirted garments). For the first time since the Mahdi's victory over Gordon, big black, green and red banners, bearing the silver crescent, and dervish spear, danced overhead. Inside the tomb enclosure, women rocked and swayed over big rawhide drums, wailing mournful tunes in high-pitched tones...
...Record, (circ. 180,000), something for the kiddies called France Soir-Jeudi, a slick monthly, Réalités, which he calls "a very modest FORTUNE," and a syndicate called Scoop, which sells France-Soir's features to the hinterland. His wife, Héléne Gordon Lazareff, who trained on the New York Times and Harper's Bazaar, now edits Elle, a Parisian women's weekly magazine with New Yorkerish touches...
Lucky Pants. During the morning round of the finals, Britons had a burst of hope. The Babe, dressed in a "refined" sweater and culottes, was wild on her long game, and London's Jacqueline Gordon, who had learned golf from Henry Cotton, was putting with deadly accuracy. At the end of the eleventh hole, the Babe was two down for the first time during the tournament. Said she: "I should have kept my lucky pants...
Eric A. Havelock, visiting lecturer in Classics, will appear in the Third District Court of Cambridge this morning to testify against Gordon B. Farrell, 19, an exmarine, as the man who held him up at gun point in his Leverett J-22 room last Thursday night...