Word: segovia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Vicente Gómez in a Guitar Recital (Decca). Three-disc album of Flamenco and other Spanish music composed (except for one number) and played by a 26-year-old Madrileño whose style is in its way as exciting as that of the great classicist Segovia...
...bathtub for nine hours during a Hollywood film-shooting, had been shot as a radical spy by the Whites. This made big news. Rosita's picture was splashed over the world's press. At week's end a Hollywood friend sent a cautious cablegram to Segovia saying she had heard that Rosita had been in "a serious accident." Back came a cablegram signed "Rosita" saying, "I am well. Fondest greetings." It seemed that Senorita Diaz had scooped the finest publicity of her career, that Generalissimo Franco had no designs on her. On other film figures, however...
...would have joined in the first place. In 1885 Dennis Dougherty went to Rome's North American College where he took his doctorate, was ordained a priest. In 1903 Dr. Dougherty, who had become professor of dogmatic theology at St. Charles, was offered the bishopric of Nueva Segovia in the Philippines. A hasty search of maps in the seminary failed to show where this diocese was, but Father Dougherty said: "I will go." Nueva Segovia turned out to be north of Manila, with nearly 1,000,000 nominal Catholics, and Dr. Dougherty did not need to be told that...
...Capital of the Whites who acknowledge Francisco Franco as their President and Generalissimo. In an eye-for-an-eye spirit, the Whites replied to the Red execution fortnight ago of the eldest son of Spain's onetime Dictator Miguel Primo de Rivera by reporting executed last week at Segovia José Largo Calvo, 22-year-old son of the Premier...
...carried Catalonia off by herself on the political loose. Zealots plastered up everywhere manifestoes reading PRIVATE PROPERTY IS CONFISCATED AND COLLECTIVIZED! This meant that doors of wealthy and middle class homes were burst in by plundering Barcelona crowds. Ahead of them fled such terrified Spaniards as famed Guitarist Andres Segovia and his wife who were obliged to leave behind her jewels and his children by a previous marriage...