Word: mufti
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...only "essential act" omitted from the second service was the exchange of rings. Reporters noted that while both the Chief Rabbi and Grand Mufti (Mohammedan) of Bulgaria were present, the Apostolic Visitor to Bulgaria did not attend; noted too that Groom Boris crossed himself repeatedly in the Orthodox manner (right to left), Bride Ivana in the Catholic manner (left to right...
...Moslems. Most of their leaders fiercely suspect that British Governments over a period of years have been in a sort of white-man's-plot with the 172,000 Palestine Jews against the 750,000 Palestine Arabs, religious brothers of India's Moslems. Only recently, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem was in London, did his fiery best to put the fear of Allah into Great Britain's Christian Cabinet...
...Also Fred Allen wondering if he whistled in his sleep: "When I woke up this morning there were four dogs in bed with me." Twelfth Night. Perhaps because the works of William Shakespeare are reputed ageless, most recent Shakespearean productions have been rigged out with modernistic settings, actors in mufti, sundry sensationalisms. In tune with her time, Jane Cowl has for her stage settings a huge book of Shakespeare which is unfolded to make various scenes. Her performance as Viola is lively, her grace and beauty are used to good effect. But Leon Quartermain gives the most worthy interpretation, bringing...
...Cleveland this week. Last summer discontented Arabs rioted and massacred Jews in Jerusalem at the Wailing Wall, authentic, revered remnant of Solomon's Temple, and in outlying communities (TIME, Aug. 26 et seq ). An explanation of the Arab discontent appeared last week, by Hadji Aminal Husseini, Grand Mufti and President of the Supreme Moslem Council, chief religious and temporal leader of Palestine Arabs Jews buy land, leaving Arabs homeless. Abnormal Jewish immigration forces Arabs out of work. (Great Britain recently stopped such immigration.) Arabs have no share in the government. Taxes have become unbearable. Jews have caused financial depression...
...friends left Munich with Air Capt. Cristescu of the Rumanian Army at the controls of the big airplane. Across Austria, across the Danube (blue from the air) and across Hungary they flew to Arad, in Rumania. Here Capt. Cristescu replenished his tanks with gasoline and Carol strolled about in mufti, unrecognized...