Word: gibraltarism
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...waiting in Europe. An expensive experiment, she served as a model for her sister ships, DO-X II & III, younger but just as big. They fly for Il Duce's subsidized transport company, Aeroitaliano, will probably lug passengers between Genoa and Britain's Gibraltar...
Wrote Secretary of State Stimson to Richard Louis Sprague, U. S. Consul at Gibraltar: "Hearty felicitations on the occasion of the completion of 100 years' service of the Sprague family as American Consul at Gibraltar. . . . There is no other such record. . . ." Other Gibraltar Spragues: Horatio, Boston shipping merchant, who served 16 years; Horatio Jones, 53 years. The present Sprague has been Consul since...
...British Delegation were infuriated, and showed it by their expressions, when Herr Nadolny specifically intimated that the British bases at Gibraltar and Singapore are not police outposts but war bases. Everyone seemed to be furious with the German delegate before he sat down. Yet he had merely proposed with an enormous wealth of German detail the sweeping and almost complete disarmament already proposed by Italian Signor Grandi who drew thunderous cheers and by Russian Comrade Litvinov who drew cheers (TIME...
When a U. S. Ambassador or Minister appears in the U. S. and declares that the government to which he is accredited is as strong as Gibraltar-then all too often the next news is Revolution...
Various members of Radcliffe College believed that investiture was when lords and vassals exchanged clods of earth, that Hegira was a Mohammaden queen, and another that Hegira was a battle near Gibraltar...