Word: abdel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that white men had not seen in 450 years: Moorish tribesmen, bearded and burnoosed, swinging their long brass-mounted rifles on the way to fight in Spain. News of the march caused grim chuckles to a ginger-bearded fat gentleman on the Island of Reunion in the Indian Ocean. Abdel Krim, Rif chieftain who mocked the armies of Spain for six years until French intervention in 1925 brought about his defeat & exile, knew last week that his own Rif tribesmen were being rearmed by the very officers they had fought, paid four pesetas a day and sent to Spain...
...other members of the Royal Family, including the 25-yr.-old Crown Prince and three nephews of His Majesty who were treated for trachoma, last week kept Dr. Fahmy busy. He also removed a cataract from the eye of 70-yr.-old Emir Abdel Ibn Selim, Governor of Oniva...