Word: ibanez
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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However mixed the metaphor, Blasco Ibanez, the Spanish novelist, has taken arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing has not ended them. That royal monstrosity, the Hapsburg chin, apparently terrifies him not a bit: on the contrary, it incites him to retaliate with a jaw all his own. He sits tight in his French villa at Mentone and hurls investive against the border at the Spanish monarch...
...Colonel Ibanez...
...banquet given in his honor at Córdoba, King Alfonso XIII, referred to the defamation campaign which Señor Vicente Blasco Ibanez has been waging against...
...France, famed Author Ibanez, himself no mean duellist, although "he has never yet succeeded in killing anyone," received the challenge. Said he: "Spanish has always been my people's language, unlike the Habsburg who now sits on the Spanish throne. Varella doesn't need to say in four languages that he will slap my face to induce me to fight. I am ready to meet him at any time...
America's first view of him-hitherto his fear of seasickness kept him in Europe-was of a hearty man, with great gusto and joy of life, keen enough to dodge political questions about Ibanez, "I don't paint that kind of a portrait" King Alfonso, Primo Rivera. No, indeed; he would talk about the popularity of Belmonte, Spain's great bull fighter now in Peru and coming soon to the U. S., Belmonte whom he has painted three times. He would say tactful things about U. S. art, such as: "Your artists have more talent than...