Word: gil
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rogues. But most readers will have little sympathy with Captain Nicholas. He does not rise to the stature of a dark brooding Barry Lyndon. Neither is he a devil-may-care fellow who is his own worst enemy. Nor is he a gay, reckless, unscrupulous adventurer of the Gil Bias order. At best he is only a sawdust figure of a gentleman, at worst only a petty crook...
...Cortes, whose rioting brothers were carefully omitted from the amnesty bill, forced the resignation of staunch Rightish Premier Alejandro Lerroux and his cabinet. Tugging at his unruly hair, scratching at his stubbly chin, President Alcala Zamora attempted to find a Premier. The choice of either reactionary Catholic Leader Gil Robles or shrewd, radical Manuel Azana might easily start a civil war. Finally he picked a political dummy for Alejandro Lerroux named Ricardo Samper Ibanez, an owlish, spectacled lawyer from Valencia and Lerroux's onetime Minister of Industry & Commerce. All but three of the Lerroux Cabinet were reappointed. Most notable...
...into book illustration, which, forming a part of the page, are called vignettes. The process, developed in England, spread to Paris, where in the '30's a formidable number of illustrated books were produced. The interest was shared between new editions of famous literature and contemporary writings. Thus "Gil Blas," "Don Quixote," "Paul and Virginia," are exhibited with Goethe's "Werther," Nodier's fairy tale "Tresor des Feves," Reybaud's political satire "Jerome Paturot," all with blocks cut after designs by Johannot, and Gigoux and others...
...seen at Chicago, but entered for the Manhattan show, is an extraordinary brown stallion named Sir Gilbert. Sir Gilbert is 17, is nearly blind in one eye. Stephen E. Budd of Newtown. Conn., bought him five years ago as a farm dray taught him to jump. Currently Sir Gil bert alternates between fox-hunting and hauling a manure cart...
...southwest State of Michoacan. He left Michoacan's Governorship to help Boss Calles suppress the 1929 Escobar revolt. He took charge of the Government's troops in the State of Sonora, made a name as an efficient, hard-driving officer. In 1930 when onetime President Fortes Gil tried to make the National Revolutionary Party his personal machine, Cardenas was politically smart in lining up with Calles, was appointed Party president. He was one of four cabinet members to resign "patriotically" in 1931 when a certain "lack of tranquillity in the Capital" brought Boss Calles back temporarily as Minister...