Word: murillos
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...broke into 133-year-old St. Joseph's Cathedral, oldest Roman Catholic cathedral west of the Alleghenies, and made off with some of the art treasures inside. Among the nine paintings stolen: The Flaying of St. Bartholomew, attributed to Rubens, The Crowning of the Blessed Virgin, attributed to Murillo, and The Descent of the Holy Ghost, attributed to one of the Van Eyck brothers...
That night, to 50,000 partisans milling about in the Plaza Murillo, where M.N.R. Dictator Gualberto Villarroel was strung up on a lamppost six years ago, Paz cried: "I was not lucky enough to be with you in your heroic hour, but now my life is yours!" Then the onetime economics professor gave the word his fanatics came to hear: "We shall. . . study nationalization of the mines." The crowd roared...
...England. The present duke has never bought a picture, but last week he had a cure for generations of collecting. With Woburn collapsing from dry rot and taxes, he had just auctioned off 200 of his less important old masters, including paintings by Tintoretto, Rembrandt, Rubens, Van Dyck, Velasquez, Murillo. Gross sales...
...lynching of Dictator-President Gualberto Villaroel in 1946, took a new lease on life. The M.N.R. elected nine deputies, and its candidates ran second in many districts of the country. On election night its partisans tangled with pro-Hertzog paraders under the lampposts in La Paz' Plaza Murillo, where Villaroel had been hanged. By the time the government got things in hand (Hertzog declared a sixth state of siege), eleven Bolivians were dead, 81 injured...
Outside, in the Plaza Murillo, where last July a mob lynched Dictator Villarroel, the news rapidly drew a crowd that swelled to 80,000. They seized Oblitas as police questioned him, propelled him across the square to a lamppost. There, while President Gutierrez shouted from his balcony, "My life is unimportant," they shot, then hanged Oblitas...