Word: mufti
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Seemingly no portion of the Free State populace is hostile to the Republican Army, for its troops paraded through 50 cities and notably through Dublin without booing, riots or opposition. Only female Republican marchers were in uniform (fetching green with saffron scarves) but the men in mufti drilled smartly, proved that their secret military training in past years is no myth. Since most Free Staters firmly believe that the Republican Army has large secret stocks of arms, there was natural Irish disappointment when the army chose to parade gunless...
...know a howitzer from a latrine, an azimuth from a pelorus; in any position to critize intelligently the benefit that others may derive from instruction in ballistics or celestial navigation? No, they are not! On the other hand, all members of the R.O.T.C. have worn enough mufti in the progress of their liberal educations to be able to assign "culture" its large and proper place in the program. What is sauce to the Debating Team and Liberal Club is not necessarily sauce to the commander...
...Nice ex-Caliph Abdul Medjid, though he sent up the engagement trial balloon, took care not to kill off his Jerusalem candidacy last week. His monocle-wearing Secretary Hussein Nakib Bey declared, "My august master. His Majesty the Caliph Abdul Medjid Effendi, constantly corresponds with the Grand Mufti of Palestine...
...Jerusalem correspondents badgered the Grand Mufti into a cryptic statement...
...question of restoration of the Caliphate will not be decided at our All-Moslem Congress in Jerusalem next December," hedged the Mufti, "but, while no Caliph will be elected by the Congress, we will deal with the question abstractly...