Word: de
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hotly engage a large Leftist defending force in frontal attack, while Rightist Generals Garcia Valino and Aranda swept around the Leftists' wings, met behind them and then swept on toward the Mediterranean in a 16-mile-wide offensive. Twenty miles of coast, from the outskirts of San Carlos de la Rápita to Peñiscola were in Rightist hands by week...
...their feet were bruised and bleeding. On the eve of Good Friday the stately Madonna, Our Lady of Solitude, was carried into Seville Cathedral amid absolute, prayerful silence by the vast throng. Present on Palm Sunday as the Generalissimo's representative, was usually loud "Radio General" Gonzalo Queipo de Llano, silent for once. He had walked for five hours in one of the mystic Holy Week processions...
...dropped around with their chisels and took final, finicking chips. Despite some absurdities and a monotonous tendency among neo-archaic stone sculptors to leave their forms looking only partly chewed, able and varied work was on hand from Sculptors William Zorach, Warren Wheelock, Harold Cash, Herbert Ferber, José de Creeft, Chaim Gross, Maurice Glickman, Hy Freilicher, Berta Margoulies, Concetta Scaravaglione...
When paunchy, bearded Giulio Gatti-Casazza was General Manager of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House, the Metropolitan's corps de ballet was run by his wife Rosina Galli. Balletmistress Galli, a girl with old-fashioned ideas, filled the proscenium with rose-garlanded damsels whose inexpertness became proverbial. Critics in those days were agreed that the Metropolitan had many shortcomings, but that the shortest of all was Balletmistress Galli's ballet...
...Hendrick De Kruif and Hausserman shared the slab in the Leverett-Eliot game. The teams got almost as many errors as hits, and several outfielders fell asleep. Steve Madey was not on the Eliot mound, but led his team...