Word: proudly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wherever the Spanish Jews went, they formed proud groups among their fellow Jews. They lived in many countries, mixed with many stocks, but they never lost their pride in their Spanish heritage. Slowly a trickle of their descendants returned to the home of their ancestors. In 1917, one Ignacio Bauer opened Madrid's first synagogue since the expulsion. During the Spanish civil war, it was closed down once more and looted by the Communists. But Bauer managed to save the Torah (sacred book), and the Franciscan nuns of Murcia hid it in the crypt of their convent. Under...
...Pattern. Tall, henna-haired Mazo de la Roche had written Mary Wakefield in the pattern of other Jalna novels. The setting was southern Ontario, where Mazo herself was born about 60 years ago ("I am not old enough to be proud of my age") and it was written not far from the countryside the author described...
...Philosophical Pope. Whatever themes he might pick, Spaniards would remember what it was like to have Ortega around. He had been a proud and fastidious figure, quoted and copied everywhere. When he lectured at the University of Madrid, students jammed his classes. He was called "the philosophical Pope of Spain"; and when he went to his favorite coffeehouse, it was with a crowd of disciples tagging behind. There, perched on the edge of his chair, he would hold forth each night, spinning phrases like sparks from a pinwheel, sometimes until the sun came...
...York five years ago, his musical stock was ankle low. At 37, a youngster as conductors go, he had made the tactical mistake of following Arturo Toscanini to a podium that had taken all of the Maestro's fire and ice to control. As boss of the proud, 106-year-old New York Philharmonic-Symphony, Barbirolli had neither Toscanini's precise beat nor his fearsome bearing. The musicians were soon in a state of anarchy. Barbirolli left unhappily after seven years...
...hope I'm as proud of myself as he is when I'm that old," added the Cambridge gendarme...