Word: moorish
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...Moorish Spain", Professor Merriman, Emerson...
...Moorish Spain", Professor Merriman, Emerson...
...room in Cleveland's City Hall. Those who could get in heard the clerk droning a resolution praising the Hopkins administration, asking its continuance. They saw round-faced Mr. Hopkins sitting back in his chair, eyeing with a great show of indifference the 61 amber bulbs in the Moorish chandelier. They saw 25 councilmen, impatient at the droning, presided over by Mayor John D. Marshall, fingering his gavel, munching peanuts...
...letters." Author of Walt Whitman the Magnificent Idler, Biographer Rogers now finds his pen cluttered at every turn with a man whose short, quick-tempered life-rhythm was the polar opposite of Old Walt's. Cyrano's nose was "long, high-bridged, and bony, curved like a Moorish sword-blade, somewhat cleft at the extremity, and immensely arrogant." Believing the world mocked at his appendage, Cyrano began making diligent study of the art of the sword. He became a fiendish practicer among the Musketeers and Cardinals' Guards, and did not take up quieter study until, wounded, aged...
French officers in Morocco did not hesitate to say that the recall of General Freydenberg was entirely political. The Ait Yacoub affair was causing uncomfortable debates in the Chamber of Deputies. Socialist and Communist deputies wanted to know the cause of this latest Moroccan outbreak. There were stories of Moorish villages bombed by aviators, Moorish women and children killed. The Poincare government, attacked, recalled Freydenberg, whose brusque methods had been if anything too effective...