Word: turbanator
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Dinner Dress. In London, a British officer, sick & tired of being told that fashionable Claridge's was all booked up for dinner reservations, made a turban out of a gaudy bedspread, phoned that the "Maharaja of Peshawar" was coming, swept into the dining room, got a table right away...
...broad, springy lawn of Madame's plushy home were leading lights of Shanghai's international set. The wife of a U.S. oil company manager came confidently attired in a new spring suit; an icy Russian brunette sat like a Raphael Madonna in a startling blue turban...
After a few shots of precious Kentucky bourbon (Kentuckians rhyme it with turban), strangers would almost believe what Louisvillians tell them-that you can smell the blue grass (which is 30 miles away at Shelbyville...
Mohamed Ali Jinnah, president of the Moslem League, wore an English-style hat, a smartly-cut lounge suit. Malik Khizar Hayat Khan Tiwana, Premier of the Punjab and spearhead of India's war effort, was dashing in a snow-white, plumed turban. Tara Singh, leader of the warlike Sikhs, was resplendent in a bright blue turban. He carried a kirpan (carved Sikh sword...
...early Sumerian sculpture, a strictly Tsarist Russian picture of the jigsaw-puzzle school-and a few really fine things like the stone Hand of a Buddha from China's northern Ch'i dynasty, Honoré Daumier's Crispin and Scapin and Rembrandt's Man with Turban...