Word: catalan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Parisian, Banyuls is the name of a heavy dessert wine, artificially colored scarlet and spiked with quinine, which rivals Byrrh and Dubonnet as an apéritif. It is pressed among the bare hills of a French Catalan fishing village 30 mi. from the Spanish border. In Banyuls 71 years ago Aristide Maillol was born, there he still spends his winters. His grandfather was a huge peasant of tremendous physical strength who was actively engaged in Banyuls' third most important industry, smuggling. Smuggler Maillol was successful enough to indulge his grandson's taste for art, though young Aristide...
There was dancing in the streets in Barcelona last week, such a fiesta as not even the oldest Catalan could remember. By oxcart and on burro the peasants came in their red stockinet caps and baggy breeches. Leather-faced fishermen came up from Tarragona. All night long shouting crowds surged up & down under the huge plane trees of the ramblas to rigadoon round the statue of Christopher Columbus and back up the hill again. From a thousand staffs fluttered the five-barred red-&-yellow Catalonian flag. Trucks of Shell Oil Co. were hailed with delight...
Thus obtained was the lifelong objective of Catalonia's self-appointed liberator, Col. Francisco Macia who already has had himself elected "First President of the Republic of Catalonia." Still to be secured by fiery Col. Macia are three subsidiary objectives: financial and educational independence from Madrid, recognition of Catalan as the official language of Catalonia...
...Catalans," he shouted from the white balcony of Barcelona's Generalidad Palace, "You are free! The moment the Catalan autonomy statute gains full force, I shall resign...
...Catalonian autonomous state will make Catalan the official language, fly its own five-barred red-&-yellow flag, control civil, criminal, labor law, railroads, hydroelectric works, grant artistic and literary copyrights, regulate stock exchanges, all police in the province, issue hunting and fishing licenses, and collect monies from the tobacco and match monopolies...