Word: nacionale
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The Count, whose name is de Guell, is essential because he is a close friend of Spanish Dictator Primo de Rivera from whom the Compania Telefonica Nacional de Espana (dominated by the I. T. & T.) got an almost unrestricted concession to operate all the telephones of Spain, now and hereafter...
Next day, in a four-hour affray at Telpaneca, 140 guerrillas under General Salgado, armed with machine guns and high explosive bombs, attacked a garrison of 20 marines and 20 of the Guardia Nacional. One marine was killed and one mortally wounded; but upon the field of battle the...
There are now only three such museums in the world: Louis XIV founded the Chalcographie du Louvre to preserve in etchings the military and festal splendors of his reign; the Regia Calcografia, founded in Rome by Pope Clement XII, contains 15,000 plates; at the Calcografia Nacional, in Madrid, you...
In Soria, Spain, Nacional Second, famed bullfighter, victor of numberless red duels, toyed with a weak sick old bull, mocked and mowed, flaunting his dexterity, finally despatched the animal, turned to bow before the great gallery- staggered, fell dead, struck on the temple by a thrown wine bottle.
With night came illuminations. The Cathedral, its whole interior richly carved and gilded, blazed with an intensity offset by the gloomy shadows cast by its 20 squat Doric columns. Across the plaza, in the Palacio Nacional,* President Calles gave first a reception and then a ball. At midnight the festivities...