Word: turbaning
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...wife's tirade at him for mussing her hair. The Barbarian (M e t r o-Goldwyn- Mayer) contains a personage whose type used to be almost as important in the cinema as the cowboy whom he helped to supplant. He is a sheik wearing a romantic turban, bedsheets and a polite but hungry leer. His name is Jamil (Ramon Novarro) and he is first seen functioning, for reasons of his own, as a guide to tourists in a Cairo hotel. When the proud but passionate fiancee (Myrna Loy) of a swagger young Englishman arrives to see the sights...
...profession of mind-reading the cinema has found a fine new target with gaudy trimmings. The hero of The Great Jasper was an astrologer who was best acquainted with the stars on brandy bottles; in The MindReader Warren William was violent, spurious but nonetheless likable in the turban of a phony medium. Unlike either. Paul Bavian (Allan Dinehart) of Supernatural is a lecherous and cowardly crook who ends up where he belongs, at the end of a rope...
...seem to understand it,& Gilbert F. Bonner, a big black Southern Negro kept insisting to White House attaches as he camped outside President Hoover's office door. A "prophet of doom," Bonner wore an old Army uniform (he used to be a quartermaster sergeant), with a blue cheesecloth turban on his head. Small gilt crucifixes dangled from every blouse pocket. White House guards let him sit day after day in the lobby, vainly waiting to carry his "message" to the President...
...life 1) a miniature attributed to John Singleton Copley executed when Washington was 25; 2) a Peale showing Washington, the Virginia colonel; 3) Trumbull's portrait of Washington, the General, painted in 1792, in which the subject is standing on a high cliff while a pickaninny in a turban holds his horse; 4) Washington, the Old Gentleman, with a somewhat rufous nose and in full Masonic regalia, done by William Williams for Alexandria (Va) Lodge No. 39. Their respective denominations...
...rebels. Late at night they made contact near the little village of Slonta. There was a running fight. Rifles flashed yellow in the dark. Twelve tribesmen were killed. A short charge captured most of the rest, including their leader, a hardbitten, wiry old veteran of 75, wearing the silken turban cords of a sheik...