Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more than 6,000 four-inch projectiles and more than 4,000 six-inchers had been vainly fired by the Madrid Cabinet's untrained proletarian artillery. The Government's trained miners had failed to blow up the Alcázar's rock foundations with dynamite charges totaling four tons. Futile were thousands of gallons of gasoline shot from Red flame-sprayers. Futile were hundreds of Red air bombs. Just before the final White assault last week, the Red Militia touched off six more tons of dynamite, but this too was such a clumsy job that...
...Pointers are made. With a rabble overrunning the town of Toledo, some 400 middle class women and children sought shelter with the cadets in the Alcázar, an ancient fortress-castle with walls six feet thick built on one of the most commanding and impregnable piles of mountainous rock in Spain...
...within 25 miles of the Alcázar when torches were applied and gasoline blazed high. Cheering wildly a Red column swept up the rocky base of the fortress-only to be driven back by sickening gasoline fumes while the blaze soon guttered out on the rocks. To save his Red face after this fiasco, General José Asensio of the Red militia started talking about how sorry he was for the White women and young cadets in the rock-hewn cellars of the Alcázar from which no Red efforts seemed able to dislodge them...
...Governor Landon drove down to the Rock Island yards for a steak dinner with the other Governors in the Presidential private car. This time he sat on the President's left and the conversation, according to Governor Herring, ranged over "everything from Spain to the Drought...
Died. Mrs. Sarah Pearson Angier Duke, 80, widow of Treasurer Benjamin Newton Duke of American Tobacco Co., sister-in-law of American Tobacco's late great Founder James Buchanan ("Buck") Duke;, in Blowing Rock...