Word: ez
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Many a Chilean grimaced in irritation last week at the latest drastic measure of Dictator President Carlos Ibañez. He, peremptory, issued an order that all gambling establishments but one be closed immediately...
...Blasco Ibaņez, none the poorer, absconded from Buenos Aires, and now no more dares show his face there than in Mexico. In both places, far from 'founding schools and colleges,' he has left outstand ing a long and painful score...
Another charge made on behalf of Seņor Blasco Ibaņez was that "with the exception of a few petty professors from the grammar schools, all the Ministerial posts are filled by generals." To this assertion the Ambassador countered by giving a complete list of the present Cabinet with the origin and profession of each member. Snappishly he concluded: "Total, nine Ministers, of whom three are generals [Primo de Rivera, Duke of Tetuan, Martinez Anido], and no one of them is a professor from the grammar schools...
Then, finally, he denied that Spain had placed a general ban on the books of Blasco Ibaņez and had denied his authorship of Mare Nostrum. With a seeming pat on the back and a left hook to the jaw, the Ambassador concluded...
...Spain recognizes in her greatest best seller, Vincente Blasco Ibaņez, a natural genius of vivid, soaring imagination, of exceptional descriptive talent, albeit unreliable in history, while his loose, inaccurate style has prevented him, in spite of all good will (I write advisedly), from admission to the Spanish Academy of Letters...