Word: moorish
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Katherine Locke, as an American girl in search of her dead brother, is convincing. Lenore Ulric plays a Moorish tart with the utmost of abandon and pidgin English. Don Morrison, the comical hotel manager, provides one of the brighter spots of the evening...
...Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano, who wound up his visit as the anniversary celebration began. Exhilarated after eight days of triumphal speechmaking, tours to battlefields, official visits and intrigue, Count Ciano stayed up till 3 a. m. at a brilliant party given in his honor in the walled Moorish gardens of the Alcazar in Seville-a palace that was once the favored retreat of royalty during Holy Week, a national monument under the Republic-took a warship for home as Queipo de Llano denounced climbing politicos...
Escorted by his clattering honor guard of Moorish lancers in a driving rain, El Caudillo took his stance on a lofty tribune. Before him, almost all his generals, the soaked diplomatic corps and the dripping Catholic hierarchy, paraded some 160,000 picked troops, representing various divisions of the Nationalist Army. Overhead in the rain clouds moaned 700 fighting planes...
Last week Generalissimo Francisco Franco held at Barajas Field, some eight miles from Madrid, a final review for the German, Italian and Spanish airmen who fought on his side in the war. Wearing the blue-grey uniform of the Spanish Air Force, flanked by his usual mounted Moorish guards, El Caudillo took the salute from 1,500 Italians of the Littorio Legion, 5,000 Germans of the Condor Legion, 3,500 Spaniards. To 15 German and eight Italian aviators he awarded the Spanish military medal. In a speech characterized by Latin expansiveness, the Generalissimo predicted that Spain's present...
...Carlists have been even more vociferous than Britons in demanding the departure of the Italians, who if anything are more unpopular in northern Spain than Germans. So fearful was Dictator Franco of Carlist trouble that soon after the Loyalist surrender he hastily sent back to Spanish Morocco 80,000 Moorish regulars commanded by able General Juan Yague, soon announced that he would restore all the private property of ex-King Alfonso XIII and of all the King's relatives to the fourth degree...