Word: spain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...these directions. One success was in furthering a self-imposed censorship of cinema (see p. 67). Catholic lobbies maintained in Washington to exert pressure on national legislation have had as their recent targets Child Labor legislation (against it), Federal control of education (against it), the embargo on Loyalist Spain (against lifting...
...Rebel Spain celebrations of the fall of Catalonia had to be postponed. The vicars general of the Diocese of Barcelona and the Archdiocese of Tarragona declared their "gratitude for the comfort given by Pius XI to the faithful in Spain during the 30 months of essentially religious revolution that the country has suffered...
Long before the Spanish civil war, in 1923, Bates went from England to Spain, settled among fishermen in a coastal village. The people, whom he loved, called him El Fantastico because of his incredible energy: he slept only four hours a night, and so that his sleep might be deep, went for a long swim or wrestled in the afternoon. He organized the fishermen into unions...
...himself, another who loves him for herself, another who loves him in spite of herself. A failure as a rancher, he becomes a Sydney intellectual, a magazine writer, a disorganized radical, at last finds the meaning of life as he is led before a firing squad in Spain...
Dating from the first half of the thirteenth century, this grotesque griffin originally formed part of a row of ghastly figures that decorated the walls of the Sals Capitula, or chapter house, in the ancient monastery of San Pedro de Arlanza near Burgos in north-central Spain. The hall was about thirty-four feet square by twelve feet high and the beasts nearly covered its walls. Around 1773 the hall was remodelled to permit the erection of a large staircase, and its weird, barbarous decorations were covered with plaster. In the nineteenth century, when the building had passed into private...