Word: salamanca
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Prince in Holland and recipient of a $20,000-a-year pension from the Belgian government. Ciudad Rodrigo, scene of one of his grandfather's great victories and centre of the Spanish estates thrust upon him by a grateful Cortes, is a little fortified Spanish town between Salamanca and the Portuguese frontier. Tourists bless the ultra-British foxhunting Duque de Ciudad Rodrigo, for in that town is one of the quaintest, best run inns in Western Spain, the Hospederia del Castillo de Enrique...
...Passionate President Daniel Salamanca of Bolivia whooped for war with Paraguay, declared martial law, aroused Bolivian patriots to pledge more than $200,000 for the conduct of the war, said in one of his milder moments, "It seems to me that the moment is not yet opportune for bringing the Bolivian people to serene and favorable reflection looking towards a pacific understanding with Paraguay...
...allowed to come in contact with a man on foot lest they learn his tricks. They must remain virgin. The young ones and defectives are fought by novilleros (novices); full-grown bulls (over three years) are killed by full-fledged matadors. Most of the ganaderías are near Salamanca, in the west of Spain, and in Andalusia, south of Seville. Largest, fiercest, most cunning are the bulls of the sons of Don Eduardo Miura, whose ganadería is near Seville. Miura bulls kill many horses.* Few matadors like to fight Miuras; some will not. Many breeders have bred...
...Bolivians understand that their ousted President Hernando Siles is now "somewhere in Chile." The revolutionary Government of General Carlos Blanco Galindo held a "Constitutional Election" last January, then vanished gracefully in March after staging the ornate inaugural of elected President Daniel Salamanca. He last fortnight pleased President Hoover by agreeing to seek Pan-American mediation of Bolivia's everlasting frontier dispute with Paraguay...
...Salamanca, Spain, a bull escaped from the bullring, ran down the street, climbed a flight of winding steps into the City Hall, gored the doorman, stamped on tables and chairs, charged into the street, gored two persons, was killed by a young man who climbed a lamp-post and fell on the bull's neck with a razor...