Word: mullah
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...Decies, 77, bluff, bristling Irish peer, British soldier and fighting Conservative; in Ascot, England. He had two U.S. wives (first a Gould, then a Drexel), steadily battled for the taxpayer against "overswollen government bureaucracy," also saw action in the Matabele Rebellion (1896-97), Boer War and the Somaliland ("Mad Mullah" campaign -1903-04), was Chief Press Censor for Ireland during World...
...hold otherwise confined to the port of Aden across the Gulf and the island of Perim in the strait called Bab el Mandeb ("gate to the mandate"). To defend Somaliland, Britain had the Camel Corps, originally formed by British Marine officers to hunt Mohammed bin Abdullah, the "Mad Mullah" who for 20 years (1900-20) carried on a religious revolt until R. A. F. bombing planes drove him into Ethiopia. Chief gain for Italy in driving Britain from Somaliland would be prestige among the Arab peoples...
...religion (TIME, Jan. 16). This week U. S. Protestantism's foremost journal, after ruminating the President's words, spewed them forth. It found in them a "naked and appalling meaning." The Christian Century declared that Mr. Roosevelt's speech was "like the attempt of a Mohammedan mullah to raise desert tribesmen to frenzy by preaching another jehad...
...they are lucky, glimpse the field twice for a few seconds each time, the crowd in Worthington Valley, standing or sitting on the rolling slopes above the course, see the whole race in the valley below. Last week they saw the field take the jumps without mishap until Mullah went down at the eighth fence. They saw a tragedy when Trouble Maker, record-holder for the course, one of the best steeplechasers in the U. S. for the last five years, stumbled at the 17th fence and broke his neck. Stuart S. Janney Jr. on Mrs. W. Austin Wadsworth...
...Between the team of Huey and the Priest, we have the whole bag of crazy or crafty tricks possessed by any Mad Mullah or dancing dervish who ever incited a tribe or people through illusion to its doom-Peter the Hermit, Napoleon Bonaparte, Sitting Bull, William Hohenzollern, the Mahdi of the Sudan, Hitler, Lenin, Trotsky and the Leatherwood God-here they are-all boiled down to two with the radio and the newsreels to make them effective and if you don't believe they are dangerous . . . you don't know the temper of this country in this continued...