Word: mahout
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...little trouble on the first score, for even Mrs. Rose is convinced that her impetuous little man has taken leave of his senses. But the best nicknames the pressagent has been able to think up for his boss so far have been "The Rasputin of the Rathskellers," "The Mad Mahout of 42nd Street." "Next year," predicts Mr. Maney, "Rose takes over the Yale Bowl...
...were determined to wrestle him out of his job. Chairman Huston, calm and cool in white flannels, talked blandly, smiled disarmingly upon them from the head of a long shiny table. There was no wrestling. The eight potent Republicans departed, looking more sheepish than elephantine. Mr. Huston was still mahout. He might resign after the treaty session of the Senate?or he might not. The issue was as unsettled as ever...
...Christian mahout...
Shortly after dawn. Mahout Ali was found dead and Mahout Wee terribly beaten and unconscious, amid a jumble of smashed furniture and crockery. When arrested, Christian Mahout Wee maintained that the "Christian Devil" had taken vengeance upon himself and Mahout Ali for their impiety in permitting a Sacred Elephant to leave his native Burma...
Devout Christian policemen locked up protesting Mahout Wee as a murderer...