Word: feral
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Dates: during 1934-1934
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...Spain upon which Francisco José Goya y Lucientes first opened his feral eyes was carelessly crumbling in vice and cruelty. Its population had dropped in 300 years from 12,000,000 to approximately half. The Inquisition had burned 30,000, imprisoned ten times as many. The court aped the worst of France. Duchesses dressed as servants and snooped through the streets or tore their mantillas fighting for title to a bullfighter. One nobleman explained his kindness to his servants by inquiring: "How can I be sure my real father is not among them?" There were riots every...