Word: cubas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Colossal is the word for Prentiss Ingraham's (1843-1904) prolificity. His career supplied him with material aplenty. A soldier of fortune, he fought in the Civil War, under Juarez in Mexico, in the Austro-Prussian War, in Crete, in Africa, in Cuba. He wrote more than 600 novels, twelve plays-''without distinction [but] . . . written in a surprisingly correct and easy fashion and . . . wholesome in their general teachings." Napoleon's writings had a more disturbing effect...
...Havana, Cuba...
Your special remark to artikel "Panama" Feb. 13, that the german sailors was pelted with rotten eggs and tomatoes in Cuba is untrue and on insult to us Cubans. Any visitors no matter if they are American, English, German etc marines or Jewish imigrants is allways looked up with respect here...
...French-British recognition of General Franco's Spain left only a handful of nations still recognizing the Loyalists, chief among which were Soviet Russia, China, Mexico, Cuba, the U. S. With the probable exception of the Soviet Union, they too were expected to change over promptly...
...episodic novel that sprawls all over the place (Pennsylvania, Michigan, South Dakota, New York, Cuba), Rope of Gold is equally prodigal with characters. The four main ones are an intellectual farm organizer and his wife; a rising automobile manufacturer; a union organizer in the automobile factory. The characters and the events are both much like those to be found in hackneyed left-wing novels. But Author Herbst is no propagandist; there are no revolutions around the corner; her characters move under their own power; their crises occur inside themselves instead of on picket lines...