Word: mancha
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clad knight as he revolves in a large circle slowly about the windmill, stuck fast in one of the sails. And so scene after vivid scene until from the flames of his burning books on Chivalry rises the volume, "The Tragical and Wittie Historie of Don Quixote do la Mancha," to live forever...
...modernity of Madrid was a disappointment to Traveler Tomlinson, but in a newspaper office there (El Sol) he saw some satirical murals by Artist Bagaria that made him think of Goya. By motorbus he went to Toledo, La Mancha, Cordova, Seville, Cadiz, Malaga, Granada. Traveler Tomlinson noted all the proper sights but it was the least thing that set him philosophizing. In Toledo's Escorial he pondered the English novel; at Ubeda a dusty image of Christ in purple silk pants struck a chill into his warm feeling that Spain was more nearly in the right path than...
...Friends thought him crazy; Buenos Aires' potent newspaper, La Nation, gave him good advice, took his picture when he was ready to start. With no companions but two stocky, middle-aged (15 and 16) Argentine Criollo horses, "thoroughbred in nothing except courage," Tschiffely headed north. Gato (the Cat), Mancha (the Stained One) and their master were two and a half years on the road. Gato came down with an infected leg in Tapachula, Mexico, had to be shipped to Mexico City by rail, but Mancha and Tschiffely made the whole trek (except for a short boat-ride from Cartagena...
...last quarter of his trip (through a country of "real estate agents, Quaker Oats, electrocutions, cement roads, motorists and Gideon Bibles") Tschiffely spends few words. With pardonable pride, however, he tells how Mancha, his spirit still unbroken after some 10,000 mi., convinced a Governors Island sergeant he was unridable. After a Jimmy Walker reception in Manhattan, all three sailed back to the Argentine in grand style, Tschiffely to a triumphant homecoming, Mancha and Gato to a carefree old age on their native pampas...