Word: caballeros
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...Francisco Largo Caballero, who had shaped the history of Spain by fighting stubbornly for the things he wanted, fought on for breath. If he could still remember, his memories must have been bitter...
...Largo Caballero had had as hard an education as the 20th Century could give. Spain's schools were not for the sons of village carpenters. But at 24, a plasterer in Madrid, he had taught himself to read. The dogmatic tracts of Castilian Socialist Pablo Iglesias were what he read...
...Largo Caballero hated violence and preached against it, but was forced to it again & again by the violent faith he had espoused-and the violent reaction that faith provoked. In 1917, when he was 48, he led his first revolutionary general strike. He was arrested, sentenced to life imprisonment. Elected to the Cortes, he was released and permitted to take his seat. When he was 61, in 1930, he tried revolution again, spent three months in jail. In 1934 Largo Caballero was hurled into jail a third time, charged with helping foment the Asturian miners' revolt...
...blue overalls and carrying a rifle, he went out to the front lines to be photographed, as Winston Churchill was to do later. When the photographers were not present, Largo Caballero wandered to more dangerous places, turned over dead bodies, stared into lifeless faces. His son, a Loyalist militiaman, was missing...
...vestibule of the Tower house contained the cards of Sylvester Bull, Templeton Snelling, and Ward McAllister, besides a hundred others." Mrs. Astor herself, dressed as Queen Elizabeth, attended the gorgeous Tower costume ball. Also present at the ball was rascally Terry, who had gate-crashed, disguised as a Mexican caballero. Simeon shot Terry dead. Cried little Lucy: "Why did papa hurt my real papa...