Word: moorish
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...Quintanilla drawings show war's effects on the streets of Madrid and Almeria, on the villagers of Andalusia surprised by bombing and strafing airplanes, on Moorish, Italian, German and Spanish prisoners, on wounded men in hospitals. Seeming as delicately bitten as etchings, they were done with a fine quill pen in a uniformly unexcited style. Ruins of masonry, the broken bodies of the dead, the brutalized bodies of the living, all were recorded with the same hard outline and shading, the same careful, slightly grotesque composition. By this apparent monotony and coldness Artist Quintanilla made a profile of Spain...
...well-rounded education, the student reflected, as he climbed the stairs of a little gallery on East 57th Street. Classes Tuesday through Thursday, then a weekend. Cocktail parties, getting around, meeting people, exchanging ideas. Then topping it off with a spot of culture like this. The sign read, Paintings, Moorish in Subject, Matisse in Influence. He opened the door...
...continued heavy, an apparent prelude to another attack on the city. Bombers and pursuit planes of both sides were busy raiding concentration points, troop trains and munitions dumps, shadow-boxing violently to try to find out who was trying to do what, where. A sign that at least the Moorish reserves of El Caudillo Franco were beginning to run low came from Algeciras last week, where 500 bewildered boys were unloaded from the transport Cindad de Algeciras. None of them appeared to be more than 13 years...
...wife of Leftist Aviator Harold Dahl (captured by General Franco's Moorish troops, condemned to death, and subsequently pardoned) did not read TIME'S story (Oct. 18) carefully. TIME said California wanted them both: him for three forgery charges, her for a movie contract in Hollywood. But TIME erred: Aviator Dahl is wanted on eight counts for passing rubber checks...
...their autonomous Catalan Government been practically swallowed by the Valencia regime, which fortnight ago moved its Spanish Leftist Government in on them at Barcelona, but that after 18 months of playing at war, they are about to be subjected to the fiercest offensive El Caudillo Franco, his Italian, Moorish and German allies can muster. United Press Correspondent Irving Pflaum, visiting the Aragon front last week, got this amazing dispatch past Catalan censors...