Word: gibraltarism
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...until 1774. In London his work lost the crude color and simple, direct line of his colonial period. On the other hand, Copley was able to indulge to the full his fondness for painting satins, velvets, rich laces. He began to compose grandiloquent historical scenes like The Siege of Gibraltar, The Death of Lord Chatham...
...fear and distrust of the people as a whole and alienate the opinion of those who might logically support labor's claims. The principles for which the unions are crusading, namely fair treatment in hiring employees and decent wages and living conditions for seamen, are as sound as Gibraltar...
...played privately on the musical saw and Queen Victoria Eugenie had permitted herself to be publicly amused at the ship's concert by long-nosed Buffoon Jimmy Durante. Passengers told how a contingent of Spanish Monarchist youths sailed on the Conte di Savoia from the French Riviera to Gibraltar to enlist and tight with the Spanish Whites. To them Victoria Eugenie was "Our Queen." They knelt to Her Majesty and kissed her hand while the Italian band played the Spanish royal anthem. Thus in pathetic dignity Victoria Eugenie steamed past and saw at close range the Spain in which...
...General Queipo de Llano sent from Seville a giant German Junkers transport, escorted by a scouting plane. This outfit safely evacuated Granada's U. S. tourists, flying them to Seville, whence they jounced by bus to Cadiz, boarded the U. S. cruiser Oklahoma and were taken to British Gibraltar, mostly dead broke. French tourists in Granada were not permitted to leave by officers of the Revolution, keenly suspicious that the French "Popular Front" Government of Leon Blum is helping the Spanish "Popular Front" Cabinet in Madrid...
...southwest. Most important boat used in the crossing was the Dato, a rebel gunboat. The lumbering Jaime I, flagship of the loyalist fleet, later discovered the Dato in the harbor of Algeciras, shelled and burned her to the water line while British officers watched through field glasses from Gibraltar across the bay. The bombardment also set fire to odorous piles of cork, waiting shipment to Britain, wrecked the British-owned Hotel Cristina and pinked the wife of the British vice consul in the arm. Cruising off Gijon, the yacht Blue Shadow was shelled by a Spanish rebel warship which killed...