Word: blanco
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Married. Angela Elvira Machado, daughter of President Gerardo Machado y Morales of Cuba, to Jose Emilio Obregon y Blanco; at Havana...
...away from under the car's wheels as it bore down upon them. The official party boarded the yacht Adhara and steamed through the traffic of the port, while for 30 minutes every vessel in the harbor screamed its siren in delight. A landing was made at La Blanco, Frigorifico, a great "meat factory...
Arrived in Montevideo, capital of Uruguay, H. R. H. The Prince of Wales. Foreign Minister Blanco boarded the cruiser Curlew to extend the Prince a welcome in the name of the nation. On landing, he was received by President Jose Serrato, the Cabinet and many other dignitaries. At an Anglo-Uruguayan luncheon, the Prince responded to a toast in Spanish, saying: "Muchas gracias por esta linda fiesta. Vive el Uruguay (Thank you for this good feast. Long live Uruguay...
...satiric wit of George Bernard Shaw is entertaining Copley audiences this week in two plays, and proving equally delightful in both. In "Great Catherine", a farce in four scenes, the playwright pokes fun at the foibles of the court of Catherine the Great, while in "The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet", he transports the audience to the American Great West to watch the trial of a horse thief and incidentally to listen to a philosophical disquisition on life...
...trial of a horse thief may bring into play the entire range of human emotions is demonstrated in "The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet." Mr. Clive in the title role experienced most of those emotions himself, and whether he was jeering wickedly at God and Man or offering to marry the woman whom the court thought too soiled even to take an oath on the Bible, he carried the audience breathlessly along with him. The play is labelled "A Religious Tract in Dramatic Form", but although the description is just enough, it ought not to be allowed to prejudice anyone...