Word: moorish
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
With Madison Square Garden, Manhattan, scheduled for speedy demolition, artists, architects pondered on what could be done with Diana, Roman huntress by Saint-Gaudens, who, upon a Moorish tower by Stanford White, long adorned the summit of the famed hippodrome. After 56 conflicting proposals, it was last week decided to remove statue, tower, to New York University. Lawyer Elihu Root agreed to head a committee to raise funds for the transfer; architects McKim, Mead & White were appointed for the work...
...with which the Earl professed himself unacquainted. The speech ended on a Balfourian note: a graceful, tactful, courageous plea for Arab goodwill and cooperation, recalling that, in the 10th Century, the Arab and the Jew had worked in harmony for "the illumination of Europe"?a reference to the Moorish invasions of Spain...
...from dropsy in the legs, Jay amid rich carpets and cushions on the floor of his palace stronghold in the mountains near Tazreut. Heavy fighting had been going on outside, but. now all was quiet. Suddenly, there was the trampling of many feet and into the room swept some Moorish officers of Sultan Muhammad, otherwise...
...Krim, Moorish rebel against the Spaniards and Moroccan Sultan Mulay Yussef. These officers commanded Raisuli to surrender, informed him that his life would be spared if he did Abd-el-Krim's bidding. Raisuli surrendered, ordered his 16-year-old son and his nephew, Mulai, to proceed to Sheshuan and surrender themselves to the brother of the great Moorish rebel of the Riff country. He signed a letter addressed to Abd-el-Krim himself, stating that, if illness had not prevented him, he would have presented himself in person. Only a short time before, he had written rudely...
...away in the wide open spaces of the sandy Sahara, lights went out, hotels were closed. The night descended, the watch-fires of the tribes grew bright and there was great joy in Moorish camps at the ignominious retreat of the infidel...