Word: iberian
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Alexander. When Julius Csesar made his famed remark about preferring to be first in a little Iberian village rather than second in Rome, he of course left the obvious answer that to be first in Rome was the really desirable position. In the case of Banker James Strange Alexander, the little Iberian village was Tarrytown, N. Y., where his parents had settled after their arrival from Scotland. And had Banker Alexander remained in Tarrytown he would undoubtedly have become its first banker, as even at the age of 20 he was well along the road to advancement in a Tarrytown...
...world loves a lover and all Spain loves a toreador, and what would be the use of toreadors if bulls could no longer be fought ? Yet, last week, the Iberian Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals came into being for the express purpose of warring on bullfighting. Paradox upon paradox, the Society was headed by no less a person than H.R.H. The Prince of Asturias, the Heir-Apparent, and T.R.H. The Infantas Beatrix and Maria Cristina...
...From the Iberian Peninsula came another growling voice which paid no compliments to Dictator Primo de Rivera...
Rumors of Spanish political crises are as persistent as the odor of the onions named after the Iberian land. But Captain General Primo Rivera, "Spain's Mussolini," last week insisted that the inescapable effluvium savors not of crises but of peace, joy, contentment...
...faculty of this institution until a few years ago. He resigned in order to go to Spain with the special purpose of acquainting the Spanish public with Latin American musical motives in which he has been specializing and at the same time of continuing his research in old Iberian music. He has been universally praised by both Spanish and American critics as an original and admirable composer. His work with Central American Indian motives has been especially noteworthy...