Word: spaniard
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...completeness, variety, and setting. Paintings and sculpture from all over the world, and of the different epochs are to be seen harmoniously arranged together. In the collection are original masterpieces by the great Italian painters Raphael, Botticelli, titian, and Giotto, the Flemish Van Dyck, Rubens, and Rembrandt, and the Spaniard Velasquez. Besides paintings, there are numerous other well known pieces of art, such as Romanesque sculptures and a bust by Cellini...
...life of the man of Southern France is a happy medium between the lazy, and therefore melancholy existence of the Spaniard, and the strenuous, rugged life of the Northerner. In this southern society where man is more easy-going and gallant than hardworking, nearly all responsibility falls on woman. Always pious and valiant, she bears on her shoulders all the duties of the home, and has won for herself the affection and admiration of all Frenchmen...
...musical critic of one of the Cincinnati papers seemed astonished that "a school of the national prestige of Harvard can send out one club with vocal attributes, a second armed with that implement of torturous significance and African identification, the banjo, and a third supplied with the Spaniard's favorite vehicle for the conveyance of the message of love, the mandolin and guitar...
...that piquancy is given to her conversation by a slight rising inflection at the end of every sentence, but such a thing becomes only exasperating when repeated a number of times. There is in the cast a character by the name of Ishmael Ackbar, a Spanish Gypsy. For a Spaniard to be called Ishmael Ackbar is something a little too ridiculous. Ishmael is Hebrew, Ackbar, Turkish. Of course such a play as this could not exist without a murder in it. If it did not have one in fine style, the audience might think themselves cheated, and demand their money...
...gets well into his junior year that he acquires the art of speedily ridding his room of such unwelcome guests. The man who wishes you to add your name to his list of subscribers for a new work "which should be in every student's book-case"; the swarthy Spaniard with cigars, "smuggled, senor," and strong enough at that to knock down and annihilate any daring customs officer; these are familiar callers. The latest character to appear is the young man who has a fine set of surveying instruments in pawn, and wishes to borrow money enough to redeem them...