Word: tarbooshes
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...trepang trader on a deserted island; a metrosexual polyglot butler; a Bedouin shouldering a Remington; a priest who manufactures hashish; and a hashish distributor who operates from an undertaker's office. He sketches all the misfits he encounters with anthropological and sartorial precision, colorfully and poetically noting the red tarboosh of a Tigrean guard; the "sublime crease" of a servant's "beautiful putty trousers"; and a Greek engineer's soiled celluloid collar, "yellow and clouded as a clay pipe...
...toward the slaughterhouse, and gully-gully men delight bright-eyed, brown-faced children with magic tricks as they did their grandfathers 50 years ago. Imbaba's junk market is still unchanged, and bent nails and half-shoelaces are traded with solemnity and diligence. The red flowerpot of the tarboosh has all but vanished from Cairenes' heads, and Nasser has even made considerable progress in his campaign to get his city folk to switch to European clothes from the nightshirt-like galabiya. Most astonishing is the fact that a visitor seldom sees a barefoot man, woman or child. Even...
...Minute Conclave. The names of the two tying candidates were written on pieces of paper and dropped into a tarboosh. Father Paul W. Romley of Pittsburgh, a young American priest who does not read Arabic, drew one name. Out came the name of Moawad, and the pro-Soviet candidate was out of the running. Said one pro-Western prelate later: "The decision was left...
...potbellied Lebanese harbor pilot wearing a tarboosh wheezed up the gangway. Smoke belched from the stack as the engine-room crew poured the oil to their boilers. The U.S. Navy transport General Leroy Eltinge was about to cast off from a shabby Beirut dock, when suddenly from the deck an officer called down that Pfc. Lubinsky was missing. The voice boomed again, and on the dock an officer cracked: "They mean former Private First Class Lubinsky." Finally the ship cast off, and was inching slowly away when the deck officer called down: "We found him." "Where?" asked the officer...
...first; in a City Hall ceremony, in Chicago. Witness: Trumpeter John Birks ("Dizzy") Gillespie. The bride wore a white trapeze dress and green shoes. The witness wore a brown-and-white cord suit, pink shirt, red-and-black tie, and, on his head, a diamond-patterned, black-and-white tarboosh...