Word: castilians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Spaniards, your state is no more-reconstruct it") and denouncing the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera ("this curious spectacle"). Finally, he founded a political party made up of intellectuals-the League for the Service of the Republic, which sent him to the 1931 Constituent Cortes. There, in his elegant Castilian, he helped write the constitution of the Spanish Republic: "The magnificent and momentous time has come," he cried, "when fate imposes upon Spaniards the duty of acting grandly...
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...
Died. Argentinita (real name: Encarnacion Lopez),* 47, whose brilliant footwork, miming and castanet playing earned her critical as well as public cheers; after two major operations, 17 blood transfusions; in Manhattan. Born in Buenos Aires but raised in Spain by her Castilian parents, she took her stage name from her childhood nickname, "the little Argentinian...
...French influence. The Argentines too liked Eugene Speicher's polished portraits. Art and amity were equally served by Bellows' painting of Luis Angel Firpo knocking Dempsey out of the ring. The critics, suave and gracious in the Argentine tradition, contented themselves with polite praise in sonorous Castilian...
...Pronounced Castijo. The Castilian liquid Il which is sounded as y in most Spanish-speaking countries, becomes a soft j in Argentina...