Word: turbanator
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...Caucasus last week came news that one of the handsomest of them all was still doing fine. Mamsir Kiut was a boy of 17 when Napoleon marched on Moscow. In the village of Kindig, he took time off from tending his chickens and pruning his vines, to pose in turban-like bashlyk for a 154th birthday portrait...
...merely observes, with an artist's pure detachment, that the saint's collar "shows the new interest ... in the vertical line and in the center-front." In another such painting, Job's boils are ruthlessly ignored in favor of Mrs. Job's hat ("the turban which spread so rapidly from Persia"). The glories of the Medicis and the Italian Popes simply show that "the bodice is gradually taking on importance"; the Renaissance reaches its peak with a striking innovation named "the handcouvre-chef"; and gothic cathedral frescoes offer the well-dressed lady "a dramatic cuff...
...Turbanette." Price: $6.95. (It will soon go on sale in 30 other stores in 16 other cities.) The inventor, John Moore, ex-aircraft engineer at Lockheed, got the idea from seeing aircraft engines packed with sacks containing silica gel (a deliquescent powder) to protect them from moisture. The turban of cotton muslin packed with silica gel will dry a woman's hair-after washing-in half an hour...
...greeted by everyone with cheers, tears or public congratulations. At the moment when Cunningham's cruiser slipped into the Mediterranean and the White House was preparing its announcement, a short (5 ft. 4 in.), chubby man, in sweeping robes and with one loose end of his Hejaz turban flopping rakishly at his shoulder, was standing in the night air, five miles east of the Jordan. Abdullah Ibn-Hussein, King of the Hashimite Kingdom of Transjordan, was watching his Arab Legion assemble. During the day, fierce-faced, khaki-clad soldiers of Transjordan's ist Mechanized Regiment had swirled...
...best head-geared men in the U.S.," declared the International Artists Committee (illustrators, artists and photographers), include Harry S. Truman ("The Front Brim Turned Up type"), Lucius Beebe ("Most Inappropriate Wearer of the Silk Top Hat type"), and Henry A. Wallace ("The Turban type...