Word: gibraltarism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
True or false, the Nazi gunrunning story was taken sufficiently seriously in Madrid last week for the Spanish Government, on France's request, to order a Spanish gunboat and airplanes to Ifni and to transfer troops there from the Ceuta on the Straits of Gibraltar...
...character from Cervantes is illiterate Juan March, "richest man in Spain." He rolled up to the yellow stucco Rock Hotel at Gibraltar last week with his jailer and a carload of friends, thumbed his nose at the Government of Spain and went to bed. Sallow Castilians slapped their thighs and swore that Por Dios, Juan had done it again...
...When the apes go, so will the British" is another belief to which Gibraltar's polyglot population fondly clings. Sensible Britishers smile tolerantly, take no chances on the apes disappearing. Food for them is a standard item in Gibraltar's colonial budget...
...years ago the ape colony had dwindled to two aged females. Natives and the Governor of Algeciras, who signs himself "Governor of Algeciras and Gibraltar (temporarily in the hands of the British)," hoped that deliverance was near. But the British smuggled over four young apes from Africa, saved "Gib" for the Crown. Last spring two births upped the colony's population...
...unpleasant in action. Its squarish, long-snouted, wrinkle-mouthed face is palely naked except for matted tufts protruding from cheeks and forehead. It is yellowish brown & white, about the size of an Airedale, walks on four legs like its cousin the baboon. No tree-climber, it lives in Gibraltar's caves, is apt to turn up almost anywhere on the Rock...