Word: riff
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Next morning smart folk of London's West End were scandalized to learn that the "man of substance" was indeed "no riff-raff," but instead their acquaintance or friend Sir Leo Chiozza Money, 57, one-time Parliamentary Secretary to David Lloyd George, author of the British convoy system during the World...
Simultaneously, last week, French airplanes soared over rebellious Riff tribes in Morocco. The Riff have been bombed so often that when a French plane approaches they scatter, after stampeding their cattle in all directions. Therefore the French chose, last week, a market day and scattered what were described as "light bombs" among the thronging market crowds of several rebel villages...
...rough Riff Robin Hood is the protagonist in "The Desert Song", a tuneful expose of Mohammedan love-technique now on view at the Majestic Theatre. Yelept "The Red Shadow" (rhymes with "go, snow, or know") this brigand leads his turbaned tenors to several well-earned choral triumphs over Post 13 of the Moroccan Legion...
...their maker. Thus the mad leper sat in Koili-kuntla while thugs prowled about the streets to procure him food and apparel. After two of these thugs robbed and battered a citizen, the police arrested them. Then, kindled with the desire to assert his divinity, surrounded by his riff-raff apostles, the mad leper went last week to storm the jail. Bullets, he said, would fall from him as softly as flowers. Native nolicemen lifted their rifles, pumped bullets toward him, killed seven devotees, then the leper-god himself. His other disciples, astonished, stared, furious at the death...
...nine more prizes from cities along the route. The route, obviously, will be determined by the highest bids. The winner will have to average 32 miles a day, estimated Mr. Pyle. The race, said he, was inspired by an Arab messenger (unnamed), who ran 90 miles during the Riff uprising. Anyone of any color, amateur or professional, may enter Mr. Pyle's 100 days, become the super-Pheidippides...