Word: moorish
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...radio outfits to disabled veterans and radio music to the U. S., invited Manhattan celebrities to the opening of his new "cathedral of motion picture," world's largest theatre. They came-the Mayor, actors, chorines, bankers, merchants, lawyers. They beheld a vast, bronzed, Spanish Renaissance structure imposing its Moorish splendor upon the corner of Seventh Ave. and 50th St., in the backyard neighborhood of Broadway, otherwise asprawl with garages, night clubs, hotdog stands, pawn-jewelers. Inside it was golden-brown, well ventilated, pagan-like in its florid adornment. Three organists played in grand concert on a Kimball organ, which...
...plane was sighted, wrecked on the North African sea dunes, 60 miles from Cape Juby. Then a native trotted in to civilization with a letter from Major Larre-Borges. Moorish tribesmen had taken him and his comrades and their possessions into camp, he said. There must be a ransom. Uruguay cabled its diplomats to spare no cost. Spain mustered a military rescue party. Semi-financial negotiations moved. Commercial planes flew out to pick up the castaways...
...gallant Major explained that a faulty oil pipe had caused his descent, in a rough sea, near the mouth of the Fatma River. Waves quickly smashed the plane. It was a hard mile swim to shore. Soon Moorish tribesmen swarmed over the wrecked plane, dug into the batteries for gold and silver, got nothing but a bad electric shock. From the aviators they took money and watches, cut the soles of their shoes for concealed gold. Later they marched the Major and his companions barefooted over the hot sands for many hours, hid them, in sacks on camels' backs while...
...dining-rooms and salons of the Alfonso XIII are in the rich 17th Century Spanish style, hung with priceless Goya tapestries. Her promenade is finished in arabesques and tiled with Moorish mosaic recalling the Alhambra...
...location picked and his plans drawn for some 40 buildings in Spanish-Moorish architecture, President Lieber decided that he wanted speedy construction. He called in. contractors, got their estimates, selected the Austin Company. This concern has branch offices throughout the country and specializes on unit construction, that is, buildings whose parts are standardized as to size and materials. This contract...