Word: spaniards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trade claims that home instruments are enjoying an upswing from which the guitar is getting the most benefit. The most respectable member of its family, this soft-toned fretted instrument was admired by many a classical composer, is played privately by Violinist Fritz Kreisler, is the specialty of Spaniard Andres Segovia and interests most U. S. amateurs because it figures in hillbilly music. Guitar sales are now at an alltime U. S. peak, 500,000 a year. In an $8.000,000 business, exclusive of organs and pianos, in which banjos, guitars and mandolins account for $4.000,000 annual sales, peaks...
John Philip Sousa was born in Washington, D. C., Nov. 6, 1854. His father was a Spaniard of Portuguese descent who served in the U. S. Navy. His mother was born in the U. S. of Bavarian parents. Sousa was a most patriotic American. I knew him from the time I was 13 years of age until the day of his death, when he was a guest at my home...
Both the fund of knowledge and vocabulary of the author are redolent of the woods, the swamps, and the plantation. Many chapters are titled with place-names, "Spaniard's Grave," "Millway Run," "The Copse," "The Ridge," "Sweetgum Spinney," "The Savannah," The hounds are catalogued, the author finding in the music of their names excuse for theft from Lyly, Burton, and Walt Whitman; "Bluebell and Burly, . . Old Drum, . . Rouster, . . Bugler, Fifer, Bounce, Nimble, Witchcraft, Warlock, and Wisdom. . . He told over their names, softly, for their names were autumnal melody ... Ringwood, Dashwood, Robin, Patrona, Pirate, Gadabout. . . Falstaff, Rockaby, Sweetheart, Tireless, Highlander, Pibroch...
...realizing that it was the less disastrous of two unhappy experiments which he had attempted simultaneously. Few hours before the Bridge Match ended. Promoter Jacobs arrived in New York from Cuba, where he had gone intending to complete arrangements for a Havana fight between Negro Joe Louis and Spaniard Isidore Gastanaga. Instead of completing arrangements for the fight, Promoter Jacobs took a hurried glance at what he later described as "a bodyguard of six machine-gunners" sent to meet his plane, promptly decided that conditions in Cuba were too unsettled for major prizefight ventures, postponed Louis v. Gastanaga indefinitely, returned...
Like a dentist trying to get his pliers into the mouth of a terrified, wriggling patient, Louis stalked around the ring watching the bobbing head and flailing elbows of Uzcudun. waiting for the moment when the Spaniard's jaw would offer a fleeting target. The moment finally arrived. The blow that ended the fight was the sort that a fat bartender lays into an objectionable drunk. Its progress was slow, inevitable, evident to all present. It laid Uzcudun flat on his back. It also opened his cheek, drove one of his teeth through...