Word: ibanez
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wings of the stage. He intends now to recover his stellar role by leading a new crusade against Spanish military despotism. The present foe is not the Hun, but the repressive Directory headed by General Primo de Rivera. It is against this hydra of temporal and intellectual enslavement that Ibanez is trying to arouse universal indignation...
Vicente Blasco Ibanez, famed Spanish author: "Back from a world tour, I arrived in Paris, wrote a two-column newspaper story of my impressions, dismissed America in two lines. Said I: 'We crossed the United States at top speed. Banquets here, banquets there, newspapers, speeches, toasts, con-racts-then Japan...
Vicente Blasco Ibanez, Spanish novelist, describes Kerensky thus: Slender, exotic, interesting, and of an original ugliness-"ugly as only Russians are ugly...
Vicente Blasco Ibanez, Spanish author: "It was reported that I, ' seriously ill from an undetermined ailment,' was taken from the S.S. Franconia at Colon, C. Z., and removed to a hospital there...
...liked Ibanez. I wonder if it would be possible for anyone to know him well. Like most men of exaggeratedly fertile brains, his real self lies somewhere very deep within. He tends to speak in periods. His words, too, are gestures; this, however, is the world of make-believe and of romance. It is his world. He moves in it serenely and triumphantly. He is a giant of a novelist, a swift spinner of glowing tales, a man with a passion for accomplishment who has been endowed with sufficient vitality to pursue his images to their creation. Long life...