Word: mufti
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...What of it?" thought many an Englishman last week, as he read in the papers that the Grand Mufti of the Palestine Arabs had left London for home in a huff. What if the blighter was angry at Prime Minister MacDonald's refusal to grant certain demands? Merely this-the Grand Mufti, of course, is a Mohammedan. No sooner did news of Britain's snub to the Mufti reach troubled India (see above) than powerful 'Mohammedan elements, previously lukewarm toward St. Gandhi, a Hindu, began to throw their influence on the side of his campaign for Independence...
...example." It protests any cut in naval personnel, supports every building program that comes along, spreads naval information far and near. Last week the Navy League lifted a voice of warning against any hasty ratification of the London treaty. That President Gardiner thought he had something ominous up his mufti sleeve was suggested when he said...
Newsmen also asked Rear Admiral Moffatt, chief adviser on naval aviation to the U. S. delegation, why he was in mufti, why he had bought a shiny new silk...
Much credit for Yale's triumphs must go to Dean Meeks, who has built up the faculty and student personnel of his school. He is 50, a roly-poly little man with a swarthy moon-face, merry squinting eyes, black mustache and knobby goatee-a small Sultan in mufti. A native of Mount Vernon. N. Y., he is an alumnus of Yale, studied architecture at Columbia University and in Paris. He worked as a draughtsman with the famed firm of Carrere & Hastings. In 1914 he began practicing for himself, still executes an occasional design. He is a bachelor...
...next day, having spent a feckless night seeking means of release from politicians, they were arraigned in mufti before the Grand Jury. Mr. Monaghan began to produce his evidence of their guilt...