Word: tribesmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ambushed by 3,000 ragged, bearded, fierce-fighting Moors. Firing every inch of the way the French patrol retreated through the pass to the cement blockhouse of Ait Yacoub (Jacob's Hummock). For 48 hours the garrison of 360 French and Senegalese stood off 3,000 yelling bloodthirsty tribesmen owing allegiance to no recognized Sheikh, who had sworn to die rather than submit to French rule. In the ambush and retreat to Ait Yacoub, 13 French were killed, 93 wounded, captured or missing. It was the bloodiest fight since red-bearded Abd-el-Krim surrendered...
While airplanes strafed the Moroccan tribesmen with bombs and machine guns, the Foreign Legion's district commander, dashing General Freydenberg, went forward with the relief column himself...
...Year's Eve a gentleman and a major. Victor McLaglen's inexperience as an interpreter of erotic reactions is made up for by Myrna Loy and by photography of the Khyber Pass and its adjacent wastes that is much too good for the story. Best shot: The tribesmen mobilizing...
Rebellious tribesmen who continue their refusals to exchange comfortable robes for scratchy store clothes will be punished, threatened King Amanullah, by "public exposure...
...buried beneath a rubbish pile. Disregarding the symbolical nature of his discovery, he immediately broadcast news of it together with interesting details. The church had apparently been built in the days of Roman occupancy of Great Britain; in it, it seemed probable, St. Augustine had initiated bearded and barbarous tribesmen into fellowship with a kind, mysterious and splendid God. During the lapse of savage centuries, the little church had become overlaid with dust; when found, it was covered 14 feet deep with the refuse of many dreary years...