Word: mufti
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When France fell, Francophile Prince Louis had proclaimed: Monaco must be "an oasis." Eventually the Germans came to Monaco too-at first in mufti to relax in the Prince's fabelhaft (fabulous) Casino and to goggle earnestly at his fabelhaft aquarium. Before they left, they had stripped the great gambling Casino in Monte Carlo of its copper dome, placed ack-ack batteries in the Tir aux Pigeons (one of Europe's famed shooting grounds), sowed mines in the sun-drenched beach. Even now Prince Louis could hear the lethal crump! crump! as Allied engineers exploded the mines...
...matter of khaki candidates. A Government (i.e., Conservative) proposal that service candidates be permitted to wear their uniforms at the hustings brought on an electric storm in Parliament (the Conservatives have more officer candidates than the Laborites). Later the Government dropped the proposal. Result: all candidates will be in mufti. Hecklers may wear uniforms...
...been hearing about for months or years. To plebes it meant the end of their sorest year and the balm of recognition by upperclassmen. To the graduating class it marked a poignant end and a challenging beginning. And to the Long Grey Line, some of them stooped in mufti, it symbolized the yearly renewal of a strong, 143-year-old tradition to which they had devoted the best part of their lives...
Embarrassment by Bombers. But the most embarrassing commuter dropped down on the Barcelona airport in a Junkers bomber piloted by two Luftwaffe officers in mufti. From the plane onto neutral Spanish soil stepped French ex-Premier Pierre Laval in black felt hat and his invariable white tie. He was nervously puffing a cigaret. Behind him came his wife and two Vichy Ministers, Abel Bonnard (Education) and Maurice Gabolde (Justice). Laval's heavy baggage included expensive jewelry, a swatch of French banknotes, bundles of political documents...
...seventh day Hakim and Tsouri were sentenced to die by hanging. Egyptian courts can sentence, but cannot directly order death. So the judges announced that the documents in the case would be sent to the Grand Mufti of Egypt, who has power to order death "in the Name of God." Four days later he issued the order...