Word: spaniards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nice old gentleman with profuse white whiskers went out for a walk in Madrid last week accompanied by his daughters. Soon roisterous students appeared, shouting words for which many a Spaniard has been shot...
...Louis Symphony began a Golden Jubilee season to milestone its 50 years of existence. As has been the situation for two years past, St. Louis has no permanent conductor; guest leaders will split the schedule. Spaniard Enrique Fernandez Arbos held the baton last week. Italian Bernardino Molinari will succeed him in January. Then follows George Szell of the Berlin Staatsoper, making his U. S. debut, and Eugene Goossens (see above...
Included in the collection of Matisse's works are "Odalisque," 1924; "The Spaniard," 1909; "Head," 1920; and "Windshield," 1924. There are also many lithographs and drawings which will occupy a less important place in the exhibition...
Painter Orozco is almost a pure Spaniard. He dresses like a U. S. druggist, wears thick glasses, a huge mustache. In boyhood his left hand was blown off by a firecracker. Critics have used him as a butt for their most malicious onslaughts, attributing to him the "soul of an old prostitute," finding every vice in his drawings. Not only in Mexico has he been harassed. Once he tried to cross the border with a batch of drawings and was stopped by U. S. customs officials. They decided that the drawings were obscene and destroyed over a hundred...
Chunky, jovial, rich Juan de la Cierva, 33, inventor of the autogiro, debarked at Manhattan last week, met his serious, rich friend Harold F. Pitcairn, 32, and went down to the latter's city, Bryn Athyn, Pa., near Philadelphia. There the Spaniard, who lives in England most of the time, stripped off his coat and near the Swedenborgian Church which Mr. Pitcairn and his two brothers are building according to their late father's bequest, made the first autogiro flight...