Word: oro
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...worn dust on his tongue, sand in his eyes, and in his heart the resolve to wrest Morocco from the Christians. Last week a leather-skinned man stalked into the Spanish garrison at Cape Jubion the coast of Spain's colony of Rio de Oro south of Morocco. "I am a political exile from French Morocco," said he. "I ask for your protection. I am the Blue Sultan." In Madrid Spain's Premier Alejandro Lerroux told the good news. For the nth time the French command announced that "'the back of Moorish resistance is broken." Sixty thousand...
...Blue Men of the Rio de Oro" and their 'Blue Sultan" are a leaden blue from head to toe. When they buy the indigo cottonades for their robes, they wet their thumbs and rub them over the cloth to make sure the dye is not fast. In the wet coastal heat they sweat the dye from the cloth to their skins. No true Blue Woman would look at a man who was not also a good deep blue. The Blue Men's rebellion flickers 200 mi. south of the main Berber rebellion around Marrakesh. Their chief capitals, fortified...
That was what boastful Welker Cochran thought of his principal opponents four weeks ago when he settled down at Manhattan's Capitol Billiard Academy to a three-week defense of his world's three-cushion billiard championship. In his first match, against left-handed Alfredo de Oro, 71-year-old Cuban who was the champion pocket-billiard player 47 years ago, Cochran led at 37-10-36. De Oro made a run of four that included a billiard in which his cue ball touched not the minimum of three cushions before striking the object ball, but five. Then...
Johnny Layton said he thought there was no good fortune at all in de Oro's victory. Thereupon the onetime carpenter from Sedalia, Mo., proceeded to lose to de Oro 50-10-46. For a time during the 66-game competition it looked as if the lead might pass to Willie Hoppe, who is not really old (46), or to young Jay Bozeman, married for the second time just before the tournament and sporting a slave bracelet on his left wrist. But by last week all but two of the twelve contestants had played eleven matches and lost three...
Layton's eyes are not now quite so good as they were when he first got into the game with a top-notch professional. That was when Alfredo de Oro stopped off at St. Louis one afternoon 30 years ago for an exhibition match, and advised his practice opponent, a boy just out of short trousers, to give up pool for three-cushion billiards. After becoming the world-champion pool player, Layton did so. The diamond-shaped plates, now set in the rail of every standard billiard table, were developed from his system of studying angles. World...