Word: majorca
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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...
...Stowe, now one of the Herald Tribune's ace men in Europe; Elliot Paul, whose latest novel you favorably review in the same issue; Whit Burnett and Martha Foley who left the Herald to start Story, a fine magazine still flourishing despite trans-plantings from Vienna to Majorca to New York; Will Barber, posthumously awarded a Pulitzer Prize for his work in Abyssinia...