Word: frontera
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...philosophizing. In Toledo's Escorial he pondered the English novel; at Ubeda a dusty image of Christ in purple silk pants struck a chill into his warm feeling that Spain was more nearly in the right path than her more progressive neighbors. At Jerez de la Frontera he sipped sherry in cool warehouses, thought of Falstaff. whose favorite tipple was sherris sack. A tavern-keeper in Cadiz seemed to Traveler Tomlinson to speak for the nation when he said, with a shrug: "That revolution was nothing. It was not bloody. It was only like an orange, which falls when...
...Espana!" An hour later Seville was in General Sanjurjo's hands. Arrested and clapped into the military barracks were Governor Valera Valverde, the mayor, the chief of police and seven councilmen. Lieut.-Colonel Marquis de Sauceda was named Governor of Seville. From Algeciras and from Jerez de la Frontera, where all Spain's sherry is made, came mutinying troops to join the rebels. At Cartagena a naval garrison mutinied. In Granada and Malaga revolutionary fervor ran high. General Sanjurjo cut all telegraph & telephone wires north of Seville. The general, who had escorted Queen Victoria from Spain after last...
...which Professor Kennelly is regarded as an authority. Before he became the principal electrical assistant to Edison. Professor Kennelly was chief electrician of a cable repairing steamer and senior ship's electrician of the Eastern Telegraph Cable Company. He was the engineer in charge of laying the Vera Cruz-Frontera-Compeche cables for the Mexican government...