Word: moorish
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...patterning of rugs and hangings of sombre and yet burning tones, his use, for contrast, of tapestries stiff with gold threads, of smoldering paintings and shawls dipped in scarlet, lit with mannered passion like suspended flame. As an architect his imagination rioted into turrets and cupolas, a certain Moorish richness of proportion, avoiding the florid by a breath and a promise. He made a great deal of money. He increased his regular income by bringing over shiploads of antiques and selling them among his friends. Most of his work was done in Manhattan where, with the help of Charles McKim...
...Spanish Government gets 30% of the gross receipts; therefore, when the expenses are paid the members' reward is very meager. I met some of the best known Spanish musicians, including De Falla, who lives at Granada, within sight of the Moorish palaces and Alloniz. An interesting young school of composers is to be found in Spain...
...transpired it became evident that Maréchal Pétain did indeed mean business by his drive upon Bribane. Tanks advanced, smashing through frail adobe huts like mastodons treading upon eggshells. French 75's spotted the heights, and sent fragments of the rocky butte, deadly as shrapnel, splintering among the Moorish tribesmen. The whole mountain, which is topped by the stronghold village of Bribane, was enveloped by the smoke of burning crops and villages and the fumes of exploding shells. Armored cars and cavalry advanced up the easier slopes, while battalion after battalion of infantry stormed the steep western salient like...
...greatest work is done by what is called "infiltration," which is used with considerable success to stir up the Moorish tribes in the rear of the French lines or actually in them: A single Riffian regular crawls in the night past the French outposts, visits villages in the rear to urge war upon the French and to promise rewards from his Chief, Abd-el-Krim. The visits are repeated nightly; and if kind words fail, threats are used, and occasionally an assassination is committed to terrorize the petty chieftains into submission. The Valley of the Wergha, along which the fighting...
French forces in Morocco, although ably commanded by Marshal Lyantey, are faced with almost certain defeat as they drive the Moorish invaders back across the Riffian border. That is, unless Spain steps into the breach and lends a hand. The Riff was ceded to Spain on the express understanding that she keep the turbulent tribesmen in order; needless to state, she has never succeeded in keeping Abd-el-Krim's hoodlums out of mischief. The French command may not send a shell, man, or plane across the border to destroy the Moorish bases, and it would be a very simple...