Word: spaniard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reconnoitering cruises, its commander, Captain Cotton, sighted a large man-of-war off the coast of Santiago. On proceeding nearer, he made out what he took to be the Spanish flag, and turning about without wasting time for verifying this impression, steamed away at full speed for Guantanamo. The "Spaniard" also altered his course for Guantanamo, and Captain Cotton had the premonition that he was being chased...
...typhus accompanied the sack of Rome by Charles V's troops. Wrote Villa, an invading Spaniard: "In Rome no Dells sound; no church is open; no mass is read. There are no Sundays and no holidays. The rich shops of the merchants are used as stables; the most beautiful palaces are devastated. Houses burn and the streets are heaps of manure. The stench of the corpses is dreadful, and in the churches I have seen dead bodies gnawed by dogs. Mercenaries are dicing for heaps of ducats in the streets. I can compare it to nothing that I know...
Pianists. Sergei Rachmaninoff had given 30 U. S. concerts when he sailed last week for Europe. Josef Hofmann arrived on the Rex, attended briefly to his duties at the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia, then took to the road. José Iturbi, the elfin little Spaniard who sometimes conducts, was working his way up the Pacific Coast. In Manhattan such steady oldtimers as Harold Bauer and Ossip Gabrilowitsch were drawing their own faithful audiences. Artur Schnabel was doubling his success of last season. In Detroit Myra Hess, greatest of women pianists, began a tour of 40 concerts. Ignace Jan Paderewski...
Surrealist Dali, 29, is called a Parisian because that city has been his home for six years. Actually he is a Spaniard, an admirer, friend and onetime disciple of his fellow Catalan expatriate Pablo Picasso. It is hard enough for any surrealist to explain what he means, but dapper, quick little Salvador Dali was additionally handicapped last week by the fact that he speaks no English at all. Still he made a valiant effort. Reporters were ushered into his hotel suite which had been prepared as a visual object lesson. In the centre of the room was a small table...
...filed notice of intention to marry one Rafael Lopez de Onate, 38, occasional cinemactor and native of Manila. The crafty clerk took refuge in the California statute which forbids marriages between Caucasians and Filipinos. De Onate, he told them, must prove his claim that he is a full-blooded Spaniard. "Now all our plans are spoiled." lamented Ellen. "But," added Rafael Lopez de Onate, "that doesn't mean we have given up hope...