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...Many a Spaniard was vexed at Dictator Primo's exalted connivance at providing Abd-el-Krim with opulent support for life on a balmy isle 45 miles long, 32 wide and only 380 miles off the coast of Madagascar. At Madrid the slogan, "Hamstring Abd-el-Krim!" has long attained a popularity rivaling the no-longer-touted, "Hang the Kaiser...
...realms of absurdity and intrigue, in the first place, it is not at all certain where Cortex was buried. In the second place, Mexico, for sentimental reason as well as others, does not wish to give him up; lastly it is claimed that the gentleman was not a Spaniard but an Italian. The last claim brings the Italian nobility on the stage...
...born in County Cork to Senor Visian de Valera, a Spaniard, and the onetime Kate Coll of Limerick...
Last week Madame Jeritza filed suit against the Cohens. Her full name, she explained, is "Maria Popper de Podhragy Jeritza, widely known throughout the civilized world." Could the name "La Jeritza" mean anyone else? Did not every Frenchman, Italian, Spaniard, use the definite article "La" to refer to her, the supreme, the only Jeritza, pre-eminent soprano of four continents? And this name the 'Messrs. Cohen had usurped. They had put it, over the trade name of "Cohen Bros.," on two kinds of box. One kind contained some dismal cheroots affectionately known as "Little Cigarros." The other contained larger cheroots...
...Hospital, Washington, D. C., of heart failure. He was executive officer of the U. S. S. Maine when she was mined in Havana harbor by Spain. When the Spanish commandant ordered his men to strike the Maine's flag, he roared words long remembered in the Navy: "If a Spaniard touches the flag that flies over that wreck, there'll be another wreck in Havana harbor...