Word: rey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...requests except permission to leave Spain, and sent three companies of assault guards to Teruel to see that Leftist militiamen kept order, took no vengeance on Rightist soldiers and civilians "surrendering with honor." By evening, when most of the civilians had been evacuated from the besieged garrison, Lieut. Colonel Rey d'Harcourt, who with his garrison had been on the verge of starvation for six days, surrendered in person. Captives totaled 40 important officers, 2,450 other ranks and about 3.000 civilians. Among the last to surrender was the Church Militant in the person of Anselmo Polanca Fonseca, Bishop...
Like the characters in Thornton Wilder's The Bridge of San Luis Rey, who were united through the device of having them tumble to their death together when an Andean bridge collapsed, the characters in The Seven Who Fled are strung together only through the accident of their common expulsion, the similarity of their final nihilistic verdict on human affairs...
...GOING DOWN SACKVILLE STREET-Oliver St. John Gogarty-Rey-nal & Hitchcock...
...Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (Claretians) who arrived in Vatican City last week, 40 brothers were killed by Leftists who pointed to their monkish habits, cried: "We kill you for this!" The Claretians replied: "We are happy to die for this! Vivo Cristo El Rey!" At Calaselles 18 Brothers Hospitallers of St. John of God were slaughtered and in Valencia, while the Cathedral burned brightly, 30 secular priests were shot. In Malaga, 50 priests were executed by a machine gun squad. More determinedly irreligious than elsewhere in Spain, Barcelona mobs burned all but two churches in that...
...section of the Los Angeles sewer system which no live eye has seen since the city's discharge started flowing through it, 220,000,000 gal. per hr. at the rate of 3 ft. per sec., is the 6-mi. tunnel under the Del Rey Hills to the ocean. Last week Reuben Brown prepared to travel those six subterranean miles in a non-sinkable 9-ft. punt...