Word: mufti
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: As one of the mentioned "Prelates in Mufti" (TIME, Aug. 14, p. 60) you will per mit me to make some observations on your story. I liked your appropriation...
...this correction. There is no 500 peso fine for wearing clerical garb in the U. S., thank God! The gracious and pious Mr. Daniels, Ambassador of the U. S. in Mexico, honored and received us at the Embassy as churchmen, i.e., sans mufti...
...Vegas, N. M. to furnish priests to the Mexican Church. For seminaries, as well as cassocks, are illegal in practice in Mexico. The U. S. prelates found the seminary with its 66 students, going well enough. For the rest, they visited Mexico City's landmarks, were banqueted-in mufti-by a Methodist who has not always been popular with Catholic leaders, U. S. Ambassador Josephus Daniels...
...clumped into the Chamber in high boots, black trousers and green shirts. Nazis who were outraged when a Jewish photographer took their picture were admonished by their leader that "propaganda comes before all." The Hungarian Life Party members, supporters of the Government, came dressed in all black uniforms. Sole mufti-clad deputy was outspoken Foreign Minister Count Stephen Csaky, who thinks the Government Party's funereal garb "outlandish...
Behind the creamy buff walls of the rambling Munitions Building on Washington's Constitution Avenue he finds life as he likes it. He strides down the long halls and nobody pays attention. Officers in mufti scarcely glance at his tall, lean figure, a trifle stooped; preoccupied clerks with sheaves of papers do not even look up as he goes past. In the Air Corps section on the third floor he waves a hand at flier friends, flashes a white-toothed grin, heads for his office. Hour after hour he sits earnestly in an endless succession of technical conferences, usually...