Word: castillo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cuban Republic since 1925, and to plunge the country in civil warfare with the idea of bringing about U. S. intervention. A certain Dr. Alejandro Vergara Leonard was named head of the conspiracy, and he and nine followers were arrested and flung into the grey, 18th century Castillo del Principe...
...sumptuous Castillo de Chapultepec (Castle of Grasshopper Hill), an edifice of imperial magnificence, begun by the Spanish Viceroy Don Matias de Galvez (1783), the coffin of Señora Calles was lifted from the hearse and borne into one of the huge, resplendent grand salons. An airplane droned overhead, scattering roses; and through a blue haze the sacred mountains Iztaccihuatl (White Woman) and Popocatepetl (Smoke Mountain) seemed brooding. Simple peons, kneeling in the lovely, verdant Bosque de Chapultepec, muttered prayers half pagan, half Roman Catholic to Iztaccihuatl who they fancy resembles the white, reclining form of a pagan goddess...
...unpacked again. Many a Cuban plebeian, unconscious that the national honor had been saved, learned with ogreish interest of how an iron screw was slowly turned in the Santiago prison last week. The screw tightened a steel collar fitted with an iron spike and encircling the neck of Quesado Castillo, a Negro who had murdered his wife and daughter. At 6:03 a. m. the garrote began to contract. At 6:11½ a.m. Castillo was pronounced dead...
...date we have found about 50 new buildings in Chenchomac, Muyel, or Chunyazehe, Xkarel-Chakalol, Paalmul, Ac, and Ocomal. At Muyel which is about 10 miles inland from Boca Pails above Ascension Bay we found a rather fine castillo 54 feet high with a round cupolo on the roof mask panels, door ways with columns and a fine stairway. Also at this site there was built over another temple. The two side doors of the lower temple were filled in but the middle one was left open and was entered by a long tunnel under the stairway...
...morning some unknown person left a bomb on the doorstep of the American Consulate General in Mexico City. Five minutes later it went off, but, fortunately, killed no one and did little material damage. Evidence points to the fact that it was a Communist bombing outrage directed against Carlos Castillo, a lawyer occupying offices in the Consulate building. After this explosion it became known that a puerile bomb attack was made on the American Embassy building about three weeks ago. It also transpired that the American envoys, now in conference at Mexico. City, shortly after their arrival were anonymously warned...