Word: moors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...after a lunch of poached eggs and toast, Soprano Steber turned up at her Met dressing room and began costuming herself as Desdemona. She added a waist-long switch to her blonde hair, got into a "long negligee sort of thing," and was ready to face the volatile Moor (burly Tenor Ramon Vinay) onstage by the 2 p.m. curtain...
MOROCCO MAD MOOR...
...Picnickers. The fugitive, dubbed by French newsmen "the Mad Moor," had begun his killing spree on Whitsunday (May 13), when André Souvignon, a young French official, picnic-bound in the family Renault, met him on a twisting mountain road near Ben el Ouidane. Without warning, the killer had stepped from behind a cactus bush, pumped shot after shot into the car, killed Souvignon and his mother, wounded another couple. On the same road, three miles farther on, police found the crumpled, blood-drenched body of a 26-year-old Parisienne named Helene Meunier, who had motorcycled into the hills...
...last week local police reckoned that Amou, if he was indeed the Mad Moor, had five shots left. They knew he would use them efficiently. "He is mad, yes," said one gendarme, "but he is cool. He has only one goal-to kill as many Europeans as possible before he dies...
...city fathers also received a communication from Mrs. Paul Spencer of Richmond Virginia, landing their "patriotic" resolution to raise the Monitor and moor it in the Charles. "I hope you are successful in raising the grand old vessel," she wrote...