Word: spain
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...spectacle of the old bitter-end former Prime Minister advocating even listening to Adolf Hitler when the one formally announced war aim of Great Britain is to eradicate "Hitlerism" surprised those who had heard him on other occasions criticize the British Government for countenancing aggression in Manchukuo, Abyssinia, Spain, Czecho-Slovakia. While some M.P.s, many of them Tories, were known to feel that peace was worth almost any price, the House of Commons generally thought that the Lloyd George speech was at best untimely for Britain and were fearful that the reaction abroad would hurt. When hot-headed M.P.s came...
Luis Sort, leading modern architect and town planner of Spain, and Vice President of the Congres Internationaux de I'Architecture Moderne, will give a public lecture on "Can Our Cities Survive?", Tuesday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock, in the lecture room on the first floor of Hunt Hall...
Contained in the collection are nine contemporary manuscripts and sixty-four books published in the half century following the great naval attack of King Philip II of Spain, on Queen Elizabeth's England, and its repulse by the British naval forces under Lord Howard...
Also included is a manuscript narrative of the expedition by one of the Spanish "Religioses," Bernard de Gongora, written on board the Armada, and sent back to Spain while the fleet was in the English Channel. There are signed documents showing the extent of Philip II's efforts and the organization of the English defence by the Lord High Admiral, Charles, Lord Howard of Effingham...
...felt he was getting in a rut. Well-heeled (he got about $125,000 a picture, plus 25% of profits), he bought Ciné studios in Nice, decided to travel. Until two years ago, when he settled in Mexico, he had lived in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Syria, Spain, Egypt, learned Arabic, got 20 pieces of his own sculpture bought by the Museum of Modern Art in Cairo, and picked up the true story of a bullfighter, which he turned into Mars in the House of Death...