Word: spaniards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...idea of a cure through progressive exercise was that of Dr. Gustavo Pittoluga [Italian-born but a naturalized Spaniard]. Perhaps you have not heard that out of gratitude he has recently been appointed Chief of the National Sanitation Department of Spain...
...black-hearted Moro and various species of parade-ground fauna. Plot: Major Rodney, an Intelligence Officer, believes that if he can get his wife to make Julio Cortez confess that he is at the bottom of a seething Moro rebellion, he will be promoted. Unfortunately his wife and the Spaniard, who proves to be innocent, fall in love and arrange to run away, leaving the Philippines and its unsolved social problems entirely in the hands of the Major...
...words too high flown, too packed with historical and literary allusions to be understood by a U. S. audience, Don Jose spoke High Treason as plainly as a Spaniard who is a gentleman (and therefore addicted to splendid nebulosity...
...month prior this main trade portal between the U. S. and Mexico had been slammed closed because Laredo's District Attorney John A. Vails had threatened to arrest General Plutarco Elias Calles, one-time President of Mexico, on an old murder conspiracy charge. Born a Spaniard, Vails had once been a Mexican officeholder under Diaz. Naturalized a U. S. citizen after Diaz's fall, he flaunted his political hostility to the new Mexican regime by threatening its still-strongest figure...
...General, they sufficiently imply his support of the revolution, and the subsequent seemingly nonsensical allusion to a house of ill-fame may be considered a Spanish masterpiece. It is another way of saying: "I will not be taken for a lecherous old swine like Primo de Rivera." For any Spaniard would recognize the allusion to an occasion when the Chief of Police of Madrid personally conducted a raid on a celebrated bawdy house, thundered on the door, and then slunk away as the proprietor whispered through the chink, "I can't let you in, because Primo is already here...