Word: patios
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Goya. In the Mexican National Academy he studied painting and drew rude portraits of his masters. They told him he could not draw and sent him away. After this he worked as a newspaper artist, followed a regiment in the Carranza-Villa revolution. As a syndicate worker, he covered patio walls, stairways and crypts with enormous frescoes of a beardless Christ bearing a great cross, Saint Francis of Assisi bowing to kiss a leper, caricatures of bourgeoise ladies and their bloated escorts trampling up to Heaven on the bodies of peons. These pictures were especially mutilated...
Sympathizers in the U. S. and Latin America still contribute to Patriot Sandino's support, enable him to occupy the whole top floor of the only modern hotel in Merida, Yucatan. All day the hotel patio teems with sombre-eyed young men carrying pistols, brooding fresh revolt. At night they sleep dormitory fashion around their commander. Asked for an interview, the top-floor patriot sent out a brief message...
...potent ABC nations of South America, the dinner was an important affair. Present were, among others, eight members of the Cabinet, four ambassadors, four Senators, nine ministers, four Congressmen, three Hoover secretaries, two admirals, the Mayor of Philadelphia, et al. et ux. The setting was magnificent-a patio with orchids, palms, exotic birds, tropical fish. The dinner was also notable in that...
...second as a result of his announced revelation that Diego Rivera, Mexican painter of little international repute, is the greatest artist in the world. Being a Socialist, Artist Rivera subscribes to the idea, "From those according to their ability, to those according to their need." Therefore, he painted the patio (inside court) of the Ministry of Education Building in Mexico City, refusing all recompense above a common laborer's wage. There are 138 murals in the court. Most of them describe feasts, ceremonies, daily employments, of native Indians. Some show U. S. millionaires drinking champagne (except John D. Rockefeller...
...crone was taken sick in the Calle Margaritas Cervantes, where Vespaciano lived. He cured her by repeating a formula, which his neighbors whispered to each other afterward with frightened glances. But there was no fright in the woman. She worshiped him and came to his patio the next night with a crippled friend. The women were joined by an old man and a boy, and every evening after that, when twilight enchanted the Calle Margaritos Cervantes, a grotesque company came up the blue street one by one and knocked on the door of José Vespaciano...