Word: riff
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...again, to the point. . . These posteclipse days are providing some sad food for thought to the Senior class in Harvard. To all intents and purposes, the class of 1925 individually and collectively, are busied with accumulating the intellectual riff-raff of four years of study in the different fields of concentration. Actually, if our mentors would but understand us, there is going on in the "divided psyches" of these young men, thinking which is far afield from these supposed endeavors. Your Senior, if at all given to thinking, is already chafing under the hard task-master, the May examinations...
...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 to the same person in answer to a demand for surrender, telling the Riff leader...
...only one point did the Spanish troops score a success. At Afrau they put to flight the Riff rebels, inflicting casualties to the number of 500 with small loss to themselves...
...Scum, scoundrel, brat, riff-raff!" called in a loud voice...
...wharves. Then in little wide rooms, perhaps with the persuasion of a revolver, the purchaser gladly pays $50 a case for the liquor. Brazen daring, cool savoir faire, are essentials in the successful applicant. . . . Perhaps these rum fleets serve a useful purpose--at any rate they attract the riff-raff of law-breakers and give the city police a needed rest...