Word: spaniards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with a punching bag instead of a real, live human like Paulino Uzcudun. But neither fox hunters nor fight fans get full fun out of bags, which was the only reason for 20,000 people paying $128,000 to see an animated bronze statue pitted against a lumpy Spaniard a full decade past his prime. The billing was that nobody had knocked out Paulino Uzcudun in all his 36 years. The betting was in what round Louis would do it. Money wiser than most sportswriters fancied Round Four. Just as the professional gamblers had anticipated, Round Four...
...centre rests entirely on the work of three great painters: Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velazquez, Domenico Theotocopuli (El Greco), Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes. Of the three, Velazquez was of Portuguese descent and Theotocopuli a Greek, which leaves the glory of Spanish art to just one thoroughgoing Spaniard, Goya...
...Scot, a Spaniard, a Pole and two U. S. natives. Rated best of the lot were the Russian, William Samuel Schwartz, and the two U. S. natives, Aaron Bohrod and Francis Chapin, ranking among Chicago artists along with the two Albright brothers...
...Spaniard Julio de Diego, 35, who exhibited good-humored, satirical pictures...
Melzi's son sold most of the manuscripts to one Pompeo Leoni, sculptor at the Spanish court, who in turn sold at least one volume to a Spaniard named Don Juan de Espina. This volume attracted the notice of Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel, friend to Anthony Van Dyck. For more than ten years the earl's agents nagged de Espina to sell. When Arundel died in 1646 he owned the book, but by that time Charles I had surrendered to the Scots rebels. Hence, suggests Kenneth Clark, the drawings did not at once pass to the British...