Word: hadji
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...then departed, proceeded on to Jolo, Sulen Island, where was another disturbance, this time a minor one, culminating in the Moro datus* unsheathing their barongs and krises ominously, but quickly quieting when appeared a little brown figure in white alpaca coat, pongee trousers, patent leather shoes, stiff color, fez. Hadji Jamalul Kiram II, famed sultan of Sulu, then spoke: ". . . If we are cast off now [by the Americans] we will fight. They can cut our heads off before we will submit to the Filipinos...
...Frank Sullivan has reported to the New York World a Munchausen-like anecdote concerning an Egyptian who conjures with his stomach. The man in question, Mr. Hadji All, has so far limited his performances to select audiences examining him and the wonder stomach through the medium of an X-ray machine, but the time cannot be long before he appears on the stage...
...conclusion: "After Mr. Ali's performance, one does not hesitate to say that the stomach has definitely arrived in art. It is true, of course, that Miss Gilda Gray and Dr. William J. Burr, the noted stomach specialist, have revealed the stomach to us in its true light, but Hadji Ali places it before us in a whimsical, lovable aspect hitherto unknown. And he makes it instructive as well as entertaining...