Word: mohammedane
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...inherited wealth only to be called stupendous. His grandfather, his father and himself have received enormous grants from Britain as a reward for their championship among Moslems of the British raj in India. Even the late President Roosevelt sought the influence of the Aga Kahn to tranquilize certain Mohammedan tribes in the Philippines. Now the great Khan to whom the Powers render tribute was bidding for a diamond. Turning to the auctioneer he condescended to jest. "Four thousand nine hundred and fifty pounds," he said...
Mohammed in London. A Moslem mosque, the first in the British Isles, other than two temporary temples, has been dedicated in the London suburb of Southfields. The opening ceremony was performed by Emir Feisal, King of Iraq, third son of the King of the Hedjaz. Mohammedan worshipers in England are a small but steadily growing body. Rowland George Allanson Allanson-Winn, Fifth Baron Headley, is a leader of the British activities of the sect...
...Upon this were the crossed sword and scabbard once belonging to Lieutenant Islamoff. Glistening from a verdant cloth at one end was the golden star and crescent of Islam. As his bier rested on the three burned-out Gnome-Rhone-Jupiter motors of the demolished plane, Mullah Hussan, a Mohammedan priest, read with tears in his eyes the funeral service from the Koran in a voice like "that of a man speaking while trying to stifle a sob." After the service, again the bearers raised the coffin, marched the forty steps required under the Mohammedan ritual to a waiting hearse...
Commerce, the great leveler of national and even racial animosities, brought Jew, Mohammedan and Christian once more into friendly contact with Negro, Caucasian and Nordic last week. Meanwhile many a Chamber of Commerce was vexed by the 700-year-old success of the city fathers of Leipzig in making of their fair the annual conflux of traders from 50 nations...
...that fat and lean Filipino females should cease chewing betel-nuts, smoking cigars, ambling about naked. No doubt as the good steamship Mindoro cleft azure wavelets, Mr. Thompson occasionally thought of the political situation in this southern section. He knew, of course, that these southern islands contain overwhelmingly Moro, Mohammedan, polygamous and warlike inhabitants who will not pay taxes as it is against their religion. Nor will these Moros ever forgive the Filipinos for forcing their children to go to school where they learn such bad habits as keeping their teeth white instead of black like their parents. Likewise...