Word: gibraltarism
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...Internationalized Tangier commands the Strait of Gibraltar. This Strait is at present dominated by Britain at "the Rock" (Gibraltar), and it is a fixed tenet of British policy to brook no rivals. The "menace" referred to by Mr. Chamberlain referred to reports that Abd-el-Krim was preparing to attack the Tangier zone...
...morning, Aunt Teresa says she is haunted by Uncle Lucy's spectre, gibbering in her lingerie. She orders an immediate departure. Sylvia's husband cannot go, so is left behind. The S. S. Rhinoceros puffs to England with all the polyglots, via Hongkong, Singapore, Ceylon, Aden, Egypt, Gibraltar. Georges, secretly honeymooning with Sylvia, is more satisfied than ever to leave his life and love in the hands of Fate and Aunt Teresa...
...dead men," the "merry dancers," the Polar or Northern Lights, is undetermined by scientists. But two centuries of observation have indicated that sunspot years are aurora borealis years, the phenomenon, ordinarily confined to polar regions, being sometimes visible as far south as Yucatan in the Western Hemisphere and Gibraltar in the Eastern...
...behalf of the Trustees of Princeton University, Mr. E. D. Duffield, President of the Prudential (Gibraltar) Life Insurance Co., extended to Calvin Coolidge an invitation to receive an LL.D. next June...
Hellenic legend records that Atlantis was larger than Asia Minor and Libya, that it lay beyond the straits of Gibraltar, that from Atlantis another continent to the west was easily accessible, and that an army of Atlantisians once invaded Europe and unsuccessfully attacked the Greeks...