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...another Spaniard, Cordoba, touched the east coast of Yucatan, near Cape Catoche and Mujeres Island and saw "a large town standing back from the coast about two leagues . . .and . . idols. . .nearly all of them with figures of tall women, so that we called the place the Punta de Mugeres" (Women's Point). Juan de Grijalva a year later sailed from Cuba to the Island of Cozumel. After claiming that land for his sovereign with the usual blithe arrogance of his age, Grijalva crossed to the visible eastern shore of Yucatan, where his historian describes sighting "three large towns separated from...
...French school is represented by Fragonard, Meryon, Berthe Morison, Renoir Legros, lithographs by Ingres and Dannier, and potraits by Nanteuil. There is a characteristic etching by Goya, the Spaniard, and among the Italians there is a specimen of Canaletto...
Beside Sir William Orpen, R.A., Paddy's pig is a Spaniard. Though he has had no old ones, this is a book about his young days, before they shot to kill in Dublin and before England knighted Orpen for mocking some of her greatest lords in sharp colors with an impish brush. It was a time of talent in Dublin, with George Moore mooning about, John M. Synge writing his plays, James Stephens his poetry, quiet young James Joyce his sketches and energetic Sir Hugh Lane slaving to make Dublin a European Art centre...
...Tennis Champion William T. Tilden II make his arms into pointed complements, while his body-the sum of their two right angles-remained a straight line that bounded from point to point of an oblong parallelogram of green turf, other factor of this geometric contes was Manuel Alonso, the Spaniard, whose returns went into the net, over the baseline, whose wrist played him false so that Tilden defeated him with ease, 6-4, 6-4, 6-1, winning the New England Tennis Championship...
...acquisition of Professor Puig I Cadafalch is a great step for the University. The importance of this versatile Spaniard is shown by the statement of Professor A. Kingsley Porter, Professor of Fine Arts, who declared yesterday: "Puig, I Cadafalch, architect, archaeologist, statesman, and writer, was for many years president of the Mancumanitat in Barcelona, where he took active part in political questions of the day. He was also one of the leading spirits in building up the Institute of Catalan Studies, Which has become an exceedingly important centre for research, especially in artistic and archaeological fields...