Word: bravo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Still the Porra did not rest, nor did an anti-Machado terrorist organization known as ABC. On Dec. 30 some member of ABC shot and severely wounded Sergeant Rafael Castro of the secret police, a Machado bravo who has been accused of several political murders...
Died. Vladimir de Pachmann, 84, famed Russian pianist; peacefully, of pneumonia; in Rome, Italy. After 70 he worked out a new piano technique (straight arm from elbow to knuckle). Amazement at his own mastery marred his concerts ("Bravo! Bravo!" "You never heard anything like this." "Terrible! I will do better tomorrow."), drew crowds. Declaiming, gibbering, playing to a pile of unset jewels on the piano end, once to a pair of socks, bouncing on the piano stool, his shows were fine pianizing or fine Pachmannizing. Specialty: Chopin. A nickname (by the late James Gibbons Huneker) : "The Chopinzee...
...Bravo! Bravo Renaudel!" cried several Frenchmen while some Italians taunted "Isn't he pretty?" and others cried, "Down with France...
...Germany and the U. S., threw their influence behind the Lausanne settlement, hoping for cancellation all round and a fresh start. Thus Dr. Hans Luther, President of the German Reichsbank, telegraphed congratulations to Chancellor von Papen, and former President of the Reichsbank Dr. Hjalmar Schacht telegraphed the single word, "Bravo...
Before dawn General Moreno. Col. Bravo and the rest of the Army officers had called upon their good friend Don Carlos Davila to assume the Presidency of a "purely civilian junta" which he prompt...