Word: mufti
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...Southern belle, beleaguered by Yankee admirers from a nearby training camp, loses her heart to an ex-streetcar-conductor, recovers from her infatuation when she sees him in mufti...
Water, Wine & Order! Candles were winking in the old Neudeck manor house. When bristling Chancellor Hitler arrived in civilian clothes and sat down to dinner with President von Hindenburg, also in mufti and limping about on his cane. In a sense Neudeck is Nazidom's gift to the House of Hindenburg. Wealthy Junker admirers of Old Paul bought the estate and gave it in 1927 to Col. Oscar von Hindenburg, so that when the President died there would be no annoying inheritance tax. Later gifts of adjoining estates brought Old Paul's acres...
...Fourth World Jamboree of 30,000 Scouts in the former Royal Hunting Preserves 17 miles from Budapest. On one of the steamers, completely unnoticed by 100 U. S. Scouts keen at spotting the peculiarities of birds, trees and beetles, was an elderly Briton. The old man in mufti who kept the secret of his incognito was "B.-P.," beloved Lieut.-General Lord Baden-Powell of Gilwell, 76, founder of the Boy Scouts in 1908 and Chief Scout of the World. When he stepped spryly off the steamer, hailed by Hungarian Scouts who had been forewarned. Lord Baden-Powell was sped...
...John Ringling's tall-talking publicist, Dexter Fellows, knows this, it disturbs him little. Outfitted in loud, self-advertising mufti, he strides through the dressing-rooms of his troupers, confident that, one & all, they are the finest performers ever assembled, worthy of every conceivable hyperbole. He is, of course, quite right. Undiscouraged by salary cuts, suspensions and failures of other circuses. Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey's is still the world's greatest show. And for each of its 24 displays Dexter Fellows has a resounding, polysyllabic jawbreaker of commendation. With his famed adherence to literal truth...
Quick to defend his new word for God, quicker to show new Turkey the fate of the oldfashioned, Kemal the Ghazi, "the Victorious One," pounced on Brusa, had 60 of the faithful arrested, ousted the Mufti (ecclesiastical judge) of the Ouglubjami mosque and decreed that henceforth God was Tanri...