Word: spaniard
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...Unless the Spaniard Gaetano, who is thought to have sighted the Islands in 1555, touched on the Hawaiian shore...
...been a meagre one, eked out on the vaudeville stage, thwanging accompaniments to this ditty and that. Last week in Manhattan, for the first time in memory, it braved a formal recital. There was nothing extraordinary about the recital guitar. It had just six strings. Andres Segovia, the Spaniard who brought it to the U. S., had just the allotted ten fingers but he made big music. Long black hair, a sack coat, flowing black tie and shell bound spectacles-he was like a comic in a cinema until he sat down, cuddled his instrument under a great black...
...tailor to whom he had been apprenticed, crawled under a circus tent and fallen asleep. Then an old clown had saved him from the crouching lion against whose cage he had dozed and taught him the astonishing art of making people laugh. All the legends made Marceline a Spaniard, but he talked with a tight cockney whine in his voice...
...their caps; the whole country was talking about a terrible thing that had happened. What they knew about the story was this: A big U. S. battleship, the Maine, had rested in the harbor of Havana and there, one soft evening, when the captain was on shore, a greasy Spaniard had externally applied explosives, which had blown a hole through her bottom and had driven her keel upward through her deck. Most of the sailors, 258 of them, and two of the officers had been killed. In Washington, men in frock coats sat around long tables and talked into...
Rough Riders. A Cuban maid pursued by a sinister Spaniard, menacing, evil-minded. . . Another Spaniard in a rowboat, a lighted cigaret waved three times in the night blackness. . . Someone throws a switch and the Maine is blown up. Thus the film records the outbreak of the Spanish-American war. Paramount discovered one Frank Hopper, book-agent, who looks like Theodore Roosevelt. He is shown ordering the mobilization of the fleet during the absence of his superior, Secretary of the Navy Long...