Word: trimingham
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...ANDREW TRIMINGHAM...
...bother to stop work or play for the five-time ritual of daily prayer. In the cities of Westernized Syria and Lebanon, a majority of Moslems drink, and the percentage of those who fast through Ramadan is on the decline. In much of Africa, as British Orientalist J. Spencer Trimingham points out, "Islam and the pagan underlayer have blended"-leading to a mixture of Allah-worship and animism that would scandalize the learned sheiks of Cairo...
...Lady-Killer. Little Leo has no idea what Marian thinks about marrying Lord Trimingham. He only knows that she is his boyish ideal of a goddess and that he worships her beauty almost as much as Lord Trimingham's viscountcy. To fetch and carry for Maid Marian is heaven to Leo-especially when she asks him to carry a secret letter from her to Ted Burgess and rewards him with "an enchanting smile...
...mysterious bond with Marian is worth investigating. But he gets only short, veiled answers. "Mr. Burgess is a bit of a lad," says the coachman. "He's a bit of a lady-killer, but there's no harm in that," says Lord Trimingham casually...
...despite her love and passion for Farmer Ted, is too Victorian to crash the class barrier. When Leo at last asks: "Marian, why don't you marry Ted?'', she only bursts into tears and wails: "I couldn't, I couldn't . . . I must marry [Trimingham] . . . I must...