Word: gibraltarism
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...collect live monkeys. She kept them in cages but under conditions as close as possible to nature. She brought chimpanzees from the Congo and from Sierra Leone. In Borneo her collectors caught the rare black ape-Mme. Abreu's is the only live one in any collection. From Gibraltar came a Barbary ape, the only native European monkey. Africa and South America contributed lion monkeys. Thumbless spider monkeys swing merrily from the trees in this private zoo. In all, there are now 130 monkeys representing 25 species...
...Flagler genius when, reaching Everglade station south of Miami, the train starts out on a long point to a station called Jewfish. There the railway crosses an inlet to Key Largo and begins a unique run, 100 shimmering miles southwest into the Gulf of Mexico, to "America's Gibraltar," "the only frost-free city in the U. S.," the southernmost U. S. port and by 300 miles the nearest U. S. city to Panama, Key West...
...chief harbor cities of Italy, headed by Genoa, were created "restricted free ports," last week by decree of Dictator Benito Mussolini. The outstanding "free port" of Europe continues Gibraltar -a city of exotic bargains dear to tourists. At the new Italian "restricted free ports" a small duty will have to be paid on only a very few kinds of articles-these "to be announced later." By invitation and command of Signer Mussolini, there was completed, last week, a score for the new Fascist Hymn of Labor. Composer: Pietro Mascagni, creator of the score of Cavalleria Rusticana. Fascist critics cried "solemn...
...Britain was concerned the matter was not entirely one of conjecture. That country, to protect its communications with India, has a prime interest to serve in bottling up the Mediterranean Sea, which it does from Gibraltar; Tangier opposite, under international control, being "everybody's dog is nobody's dog," and therefore does not count. Whatever Sir Austen may have said, it seems a logical deduction to suppose that he aimed at increasing Britain's hold on the Mediterranean and possibly did offer Spain much needed tariff concessions in return for her aid in strengthening the British position...
...addition, Navy monuments will be erected on the Island of Corfu and on the rock of Gibraltar...