Word: pio
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...explore Mexico. Rich oil fields met his eye; he organized the Mexican Petroleum Co. Now, he has accumulated a fortune of some $100,000,000. Perhaps, he regards his Elk Hills leases as Doheny was a bribe, or at least just another successful bit of pio neering...
...LORD OF LABRAZ-Pio Baroja -Knopf ($2.50). The Spanish hail Señor Baroja as their most popular living talespinner. He writes a little like Dickens, a little like Stevenson, always like a Spaniard-that is, with bold light, harsh shading. His story here is quite simple-a blind nobleman in a priest-ridden hill town quixotically shoulders his brother's misdeeds, earning only calumny and spite from the populace, renouncing society and going to wander, Lear-like, over the bleak table-lands with a wronged barmaid for his Cordelia, a Basque beggar for Poor Tom. It is fiction...
Professor Antonio G. Solalinde, of the Centro de Estudios Historieos in Madrid will give a lecture in Spanish this evening on "Pio Baroja, Novelista" in Emerson J at 8 o'clock Professor Sola linde is one of the most distinguished Spanish scholars now living
...Tuesday, February 10, at 8 o'clock, Professor Antonio G. Solalinde of Madrid will give a lecture in Emerson J on the Spanish novelist, Pio Baroja. The lecture is under the auspices of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures...
Professor A. G. Solalinde of Madrid will deliver a lecture in Spanish at 8 o'clock in Emerson Hall on February 10. His subject is "Pio Baroja, Novelista", Professor Salalinde is secretary of the Officina de Relaciones Culturales under the state department of Spain and is associated with the Centro de Estudios Historicos of Madrid...