Word: majorca
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...North Spain the stalemate of rebel and loyalist forces battling in the Guadarrama Mountains continued. Barcelona remained quiet, but loyalist officers were busy organizing an expeditionary force of 14,700 men, with ships and planes to attempt to recapture the Balearic Islands from the rebels, bomb Palma, Majorca to bits...
...machine. The contents were by themselves and friends, including Kay Boyle and Oliver Gossman. This smudged, amateur attempt set off a literary explosion, is now worth $500 per copy as a curiosity. When they lost their jobs in Vienna, the Burnetts took their magazine to the Mediterranean island of Majorca. By 1933 Story had acquired such a patina of prestige that it attracted the attention of three smart literary middlemen of Manhattan, Publishers Bennett ("Beans") Cerf and Donald Klopfer of the Modern Library and Random House and Harry Scherman of the Book-of-the-Month Club...
...black cigar. According to Author Murdoch, that bestselling novelist was "an odd mixture of vulture and vampire." Once a lover was discarded, she used him cruelly for copy and the disguise was thin. In 1838 Chopin and Sand acknowledged their liaison by going together to the Island of Majorca where Chopin almost died of his first tuberculous attack. His mistress was his nurse for eight years. Then she tired and wrote Lucrezia Floriani, in which she appears as a motherly protectress and Chopin as an exquisite who was often jealous and rude. The break was Chopin's destruction. With...
Divorced. Mrs. Carolyn Dennett Lockwood who, with her husband and two other U. S. citizens, was imprisoned for eight weeks in Majorca in 1933 after a brawl with a civil guard (TIME, July 24. 1933 et seq.); from Clinton Benedict Lockwood. artist; in Reno. Grounds: cruelty, misconduct...
Your correspondent who complains because you seem to regard Jewishness as involving something more or other than the religion of Judaism should go to Majorca and see the Ghetto of Palma where live the "Chuetas"-a people who have been the most pious of Catholics for five centuries, but who are still savagely discriminated against because their ancestors were once Jews...