Word: turbanned
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...singles finals against Miss Helen Wills. The contrast was between darting flames and scintillating ice. Serious, studious, book-writing, sketch-drawing Helen Wills seemed, in her stiff, skeletonized cap merely efficient. Señorita de Alvarez came out onto the court in .a brilliant red sweater and turban, took off the sweater, changed the scarlet turban to one of bottle green. If she won the match the world would have another Suzanne Lenglen, tempestuous, temperamental, a little spoiled, quite regal...
...Religion (Mohammedanism) has also been effectively kicked out of the schoolroom, which had hitherto been its most precious domain. The white turban has been torn from the ignorant heads of the hodjas, whose influence was once unassailable. Hodjas, if they wish to continue as teachers, must now pass examinations in subjects of which they formerly knew nothing. (Education is national, based on Western systems of both sexes...
...Geneva the League opened with a fanfare and a crush which it has never equaled. For the first time there was standing room only and not enough of that in the Press Box. Mrs. Woodrow Wilson was showered with bouquets. The Maharajah of Patralia (India) wore a blue turban, pink earrings, gold bracelets, frock coat. Senator Raoul Dandurand‡ of Canada was elected President of the present League Assembly (the 6th) on the first ballot and took up his duties; to the satisfaction of the Commonwealth because he is Canadian, to the delight of France because he is of French...
Doubtless Mr. Coolidge feels that he could never make a great motion picture star. Perhaps he is right, but there is always room for an intelligent and hard-working young man in Hollywood. Who knows what a little brown grease painter, a gay turban, and an Arab steed might do. The screen is perpetually looking for a successor to the great Valentino...
...fierce Riffian guards, armed hip and thigh. Second, came a huge, ill-fashioned sedan chair, supported at each corner by a pole and carried by 16 husky men. Inside the sedan box was Raisuli, reclining on soft carpets and magnificent cushions. Over his paunchy, shapeless face he wore a turban; under if, his little black eyes rolled and blazed alternately in pain and fury. His black-dyed beard was partially hidden in the soft, white woolen garments which swathed his bloated body. Third, came four of Raisuli's favorite wives, perched on Spanish mules and attended by three armed...