Word: iberia
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...Born: In Iberia Parish...
...served a year in Cuba, fighting through the Santiago campaign. As an assistant secretary, he went to the Philippines with the Taft Commission. Back in Louisiana he got a quick law degree from Tulane University, was admitted to the bar in 1901, hung out his shingle at New Iberia, still his home. He served five years as a local prosecuting attorney, turned temporarily Progressive, made a losing run for lieutenant governor. His brother Robert, ten years his senior, had served 18 years (1897-1915) in the House of Representatives when he was advanced to the Senate. There he died...
...years I have waited for this day, and now that it has come I throw out my arms to the rest of Iberia and say to its people: 'You must have the same liberties that we have...
ALBENIZ' IBERIA SUITE by the Madrid Symphony under Enrique Fernandez Arbos (Columbia, $6)-Typical Spanish rhythms deftly treated by Spain's greatest conductor only recently departed from the St. Louis Symphony...
...Circus Maximus episode. Lions roared. Christians sang their martyr songs. Part of it would make excellent accompaniment for a Griffith cinema with its bells and serenades and saltarellos, but Toscanini made it seem important for itself, almost a worthy companion to Debussy's Iberia, which followed; and to the Tannhauser overture which, for once, said all that Wagner intended...