Word: conquistadoring
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...exhibit of Mexican art at the Museum of Modern Art (see p. 57), a program of Mexican music was worked out by Mexico's swart, amiable, unruly-locked Composer-Conductor Carlos Chavez. A collection of ancient instruments in the Mexican National Museum, and such tomes of conquistador times as the Codex Florentinus (a compilation of Indian folklore, with many a crude illustration-see cut), were all the proof Composer Chavez could give that his fanciful reconstruction called Xochi-pili-Macuilxochitl after the Aztec god of music, the dance, flowers, love-was the real stuff. But it really sounded like...
...basic American tenet (a prime plank of the Republican platform in 1936) that U. S. government shall be government of laws, not of men. A successful lawyer who turned poet (in 1923) as calculatedly as some lawyers turn politician, who made good at it by winning a Pulitzer Prize (Conquistador, 1933) and who supported his muse by diligent journalism, Archie MacLeish won the respect of Mr. Roosevelt and his Janizaries to such a degree that for two years past they have been contriving to draft him into their service...
From confusing the word Bull with Conquistador...
MacLeish, on the Harvard staff this year for the first time, is the author of the Pulitzer Prize winning poem "Conquistador," and of "New Found Land," "Frescoes for Mr. Rockefeller's City," "Union Pacific,--a Ballet," "Panic," and the two radio plays "Fall of the City" and "Air Raid...
MacLeish's duties at Harvard are only part-time in order that he may continue with his poetry. In 1932 he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his poem "Conquistador". However, on assuming his position at the University, MacLeish discontinued his association with Fortune magazine...