Word: segura
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hastily cleaned out, reconsecrated in time for Easter services last week. In Seville the traditional ceremonies of Holy Week, celebrated before the civil war with greater popular participation and solemn pomp than anywhere else in the world, were back to normal last week, with His Eminence Pedro Cardinal Segura officiating. Once again all Seville turned out, cigaret workers from the factory of Carmen in Bizet's famed opera shouldering their gorgeous, gold, bejeweled Madonna of Victory...
...Before the war, little Teruel was known chiefly as the home of Spain's Romeo & Juliet, the lovers Juan de Marcilla and Isabel de Segura who died of grief in the 13th Century, whose remains were put on view in the Church of San Pedro; there they remained last week still undamaged by shell fire. Most famed drama on their tragedy is Los Amantes de Teruel, by the Spanish son of a German cabinetmaker, Juan Eugenio Hartzenbusch...
...Mexico City, citizens were horrified to read that they have been eating hot tamales in which the tender meat was the flesh of Mexican babies. Consuelo Segura, 30, confessed to kidnapping 326 babies which she sold to one Manuela Frias, wife of a petty government employe, who said she eked out her husband's meager pay by murdering the infants and converting their flesh into tamales...
Although the acting of Milton I. Byer '35, who played the part of Jose Segura, a bold, bad, South American, was outstanding, it failed to excel the performance of Retta, played by Nixon de Tarnowsky '35, who truly met the requirements of any man's ideal girl. Joseph D. Fisher '35 portrayed a vivacious young lady named Mamie with the proper amount of gusto, and Kenneth Di Menna '34 succeeded in amusing the audience as the Amewican Awistocrat, Lieuteuant Cadwallader, who had slight difficulty in speaking...
Expelled from Spain by the military last summer, Cardinal Segura watched from a French monastery near the Spanish frontier last week while Madrid legislators passed a bill strongly opposed by His Eminence. This law, which the Spanish National Assembly passed 160 to 121, granted suffrage at last to Spanish females aged 23 or more...