Word: andalusian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...declares: the censors would make mincemeat of it. Evidently influenced by Hemingway (Rex Ingram's favorite author), Mars in the House of Death traces the short life of a famed bullfighter named Chuchito, illegitimate son of a Spanish nobleman and a gypsy dancer, who grows up among Andalusian fighting bulls and Barcelona harlots, falls in love (innocently) with his half-sister while having a passionate affair with the U. S. wife of a Mexican general, is fatally gored in time to prevent a worse tragedy. A colorful, realistic, badly constructed tale, Mars in the House of Death will...
...Pepita she now offers the two latest portraits of her "too prodigal, too amorous, too weak, too indolent, and too melancholy" family. The first is of her gypsy grandmother Pepita Duran y Ortega; the second of her mother, who died last year at 73. Tall, Andalusian Pepita was descended from a hot-blooded family of old-clothes peddlers, smugglers, bandits fruit sellers, gypsies. Too clumsy to succeed as a dancer in Madrid, in Paris her beauty and Spanish charm were more than enough. Tall, blond, 25-year-old Lione' Sackville-West, of the British diplomatic corps, made...
Leftist planes scouting over the Guadarramas reported new concentrations of Rightist troops near Guadalajara. Other sources reported nearly 100,000 Rightist troops going southward to join the Andalusian army of boastful "Radio General" Queipo de Llano. At week's end came a cracker. El Caudillo Franco issued an ultimatum to the Barcelona Government. The Negrin Cabinet must agree to an "unconditional surrender" before December 5 or else the long prepared Rightist offensive would start...
...brown Andalusian...
Later in cutaway coat and striped trousers he wandered sadly down the hotel corridor. Before him a buxom Spanish charwoman was on her hands and knees scrubbing the floor. For three full minutes he stared solemnly at her healthy Andalusian contours, then a slow smile spread over the little Emperor's face. He fished in his pocket, produced a crisp ?5 note...