Word: turbanned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...India (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Ramon Novarro, dressed in a turban and sitting on top of an elephant, does not look in the least like Mahatma Gandhi nor any other East Indian. He does, however, look enough like the late Rudolph Valentino to inspire audience reactions of the Valentino kind if not the same degree. In this picture Novarro is an Indian merchant prince in love with a girl from Boston whose brother has once done the Indian a great favor. He has a chance to show his gratitude when the brother underlines the difficulties of inter-racial marriage. Indian pictures...
...high of 57½? to the historic low of 25½?per fine ounce. The only notable interruption was the remarkable corner staged last year by Chimauram Motilal, aged Hindu who drives in a Cadillac, carries a Malacca stick, wears but a white loincloth and a turban. But last week with much yelling and gesticulating Bombay silver buyers shoved the price up 1.66%. The gain was of paramount importance to the buying-power of 500,000,000 Far-Easterners. To China it was especially welcome.*Long-coated, silk-trousered members of the Shanghai Gold Stock Exchange on Kiukiang Road bought...
...Maharaja of Patiala, Maj. General His Highness Bhupindra Singh. Hon. Aide de Camp since 1922 to George V. (Deep-chested, tremendous, with close-braided beard and heavy-lidded, magnetic eyes, expression and reputation sensual and sinister; from beneath his turban peep a pair of earrings each consisting of two pearls, diamond-set and large as cherries...
...blows came-he stood straight. His turban was knocked off. The long black hair was bared with the round topknot. He closed his eyes as the blows fell -until at last he swayed and fell to the ground...