Word: barcelona
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...visited. There are several important archives at Madrid, both public and private. The archives of the military orders are at Alcala nearby, and if possible the municipal archives at Toledo will be inspected. Leaving Madrid, we will visit Valencia and then proceed northward with stops at Taragona and Barcelona, with a side trip to Saragoza if time permits...
...then in a hole with pigs on a ship. . . . There are good people in Mexico, holy and devout. They pray for the intervention of your government. . . . But I am too old; I have spent my life. . . . What is there left for me? I will retire into the convent in Barcelona. It has been a very sad thing...
...Providence, R. I., last week Brown University conferred upon Serge Koussevitzky, conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the honorary degree of Doctor of Music. Said President William H. P. Faunce: "He is a distinguished virtuoso and interpreter of the music of all peoples; leader of concerts in London, Madrid, Barcelona and Warsaw, who has crossed the seas to convey to prosaic America some of his own insight into the arts in the universal language of music." Conductor Koussevitzky speaks little English, could think of no fitting reply, instead lifted his bass violin, played eloquently Handel's Largo, the Andante from...
...Barcelona, one Sebastian Anaro Anzarez, "a former picador," entered a hotel, ordered cold-turtle soup. The order was delayed. When the tureen at last appeared, Sebastian, tired of waiting, snatched it and "drained half its contents at a gulp." Then his eyes bulged, his face contorted. Nearly choking, he spat out a live turtle the size of a bright new peseta...
Premier Painlevé, who later declared himself thrilled by the "wonderful air journey," left Paris for Toulouse by train. There he took a military airplane, was flown to Barcelona, from Barcelona to Alicante and Malaga, thence, skirting Tangier, by the sea route to Rabat en the Moroccan coast...