Word: majorca
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Spain, the prize War baby was Juan March, who had been born of poor peasants on the island of Majorca. Before the War, March was a small Barcelona trader who sold onions and chickens during the day and smuggled tobacco and silk by night. His smuggling flotilla came in handy as early as October of 1914, when he made a killing by cornering all available pigs on the coast of Spain and selling them to the Entente powers for a fantastic profit. Shortly his smuggling fleet had become the Compania Transmediterranea. This company supplied food to the Entente nations...
Which astonished that girl of Majorca...
English youngsters still burst their Eton jackets giggling at Lear's Book of Nonsense. The U. S. breed find Lear's nonsense nonsensical. But Lear is essentially grownups' Mother Goose. Limericks like the Young Girl of Majorca still wow big-wigged British judges...
There was a young girl of Majorca...
...recent civil war, Adolf Hitler's men modestly stayed in the background, playing a less conspicuous but no less effective role. II Duce sent not only airmen but infantrymen to help Generalissimo Francisco Franco conquer the stubborn Spanish Republicans. Spectacularly he took over the strategic island of Majorca as a bombing base, bombastically he bragged about the brave exploits of his legionnaires...