Word: moorish
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...Modeste as librettist, weary Piotr Ilyitch sat down and produced his last opera, lolanthe, a little idyll about a princess of Naples who did not know she was blind because she had been so from birth. Cured by Ibn Hakia, who strokes the long white beard appropriate to a Moorish sage, she marries the noble whose love made her cure possible. Tchaikovsky speedily became engrossed in this wistful idyll, achieved a brightly lyrical score rare among his mature works...
...estate. In its day it cost more than $1,000,000 and was generally considered a thing of rare architectural beauty (see cut). Inside it was a magnificent hodgepodge. The great central hall, three stories high, was largely Italian. There was a Louis XVI salon, an Indian room, a Moorish room where the rugs were impregnated with rare perfumes. The grand ballroom was plastered with a splendid collection of French paintings. The murals were by Gabriel Ferrier. But what most impressed a Chicago still living close to the stockyards was a private elevator and the report that the huge castle...
...continuity would be to condone a very questionable practice. University authorities must find some other solution than that of a drastic limitation of the graduate students in the Houses on order to enable the Freshman class to migrate en masse next year to the realm of Georgian facades and Moorish domes...
...Philadelphia, Negro Thomas Tolbert, io, was haled into Juvenile Court as a truant. His mother said she had told him to stay home until the teacher learned to call him Thomas Tolbert-El. his name as a member of the Moorish-American Mohammedan cult. Grand Sheik Joshua Way Bey came from Chicago to back her up, describe his organization which turns Negroes into Moors (turbans $3.50. polygamy permitted). Judge Charles L. Brown had Grand Sheik Joshua Way Bey hospitalized for examination, ordered Thomas Tolbert-El back to school...
Sardinia, due south of Corsica, is a large island in the Mediterranean belonging to Italy. But Sardinians remember other allegiances-once they were Moorish, once Spanish, once even Austrian. Clannish, independent, like all islanders they dislike and distrust dwellers on the mainland. Authoress Posse-Brazdova tells a grim tale of a Sardinian private during the War who. told that he could not take to the rear a prisoner he had captured, made sure of him by biting through the artery in his neck, guzzling his blood in great gulps. The Sassari Brigade (Sardinian) was the only one that...