Word: madrid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Alvaró de Figueroa y Torres, Count de Romanones, 87, "el travieso conde" (the mischievous count), one of Spain's richest grandees, thrice Premier under the late King Alfonso XIII; in Madrid. A sturdy Monarchist, whose Punch-like profile was once a symbol of Bourbon Spain for European political cartoonists, Count de Romanones retired from active politics in 1931, soon after the Republicans forced the King into exile...
...only Spanish custom but municipal law prescribes the wearing of shirts, collars (preferably starched), neckties *and jackets on the streets of Madrid, regardless of the weather. Last week, as Madrid sweltered under a 98° heat, a new criminal stalked the city's streets, and a new word crept into the Spanish vocabulary to describe...
...rebellious Madrilenos began leaving off their neckties and jackets to escape the heat, they were promptly labeled piscinista (from piscina or swimming pool). The mayor of Madrid detailed a special anti-piscinista squad of police to round them up and restore decency...
...Thing to Fear. Spain's Civil War was hard on the Corvillon family. Because they stayed at their jobs in Loyalist Madrid they were in the Franco government's Dad books when the war ended. Benito's father was fired, and Benito himself was thrown into jail without trial or specific charges. For nine months he was awakened each morning by the firing of execution squads, wondering if he would be next...
Summer in a Tangerine. In the years preceding the first World War he hopscotched furiously about Europe-Rome, Berlin, Venice, Madrid-in pursuit of inspiration. Soon his New Poems and The Notebooks of Malte Laurīds Brigge were making him the talk of European intellectuals. From his large, sensual mouth came a flood of such poetic fancies as his description of a tangerine, "in which a summer is folded up very small like an Italian silk handkerchief in a nutshell...