Word: calderon
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...various buildings were inspected. At the banquet tendered the delegates by the Chamber of Commerce, Professor Knapp of Yale welcomed the visitors in a speech in Spanish to their great delight. Professor Knapp then acted as interpreter to the South American delegates and amongst the speakers were Senator Calderon, of Venezuela, President Dwight of Yale, and Senator J. B. Henderson of Missouri...
...that night saw was impending over the life of every man, a sword hung by a thread. To his keen, sharp, sensitive temperament an apparition truly tragic was anywhere possible. And the phantasm which appeared to Shelley shortly before his death came from reading a weird drama by Calderon, - a work so rare as to be wellnigh inaccessible...