Word: spaniards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...provided that Pilot Dahl's wages be paid outside of Spain directly to his bride, Mrs. Edith Rogers Dahl, who used to appear with Crooner Rudy Vallee's band. After signing, Pilot Dahl was sent to Mexico, provided there with a passport showing him to be a Spaniard by the name of Hernandez Diaz. Bridegroom Dahl sailed for Spain and Bride Dahl settled down in a French hotel at Cannes where she registered as Senora Edithe Diaz...
...talk with Mr. Santayana it is as difficult to pigeon-hole him as a "type" as it is to pigeon-hole his philosophy. He's not an American, though he was educated there; he's not a Spaniard, though he was born one. He's more the ancient Greek somehow or other brought up in the 19th century England. Though he dislikes "the taste of academic straw" he's a scholar who zealously fools his work. He has the greatness of genius, and yet the common sense of one richly human. Like the ancients, he would make philosophy...
Professors have always been a byword and a hissing to Wall Street, and-except for their late brief heyday-not too highly regarded in Washington. But in 1932 appeared a book by a professor, and a Spaniard at that, which was read with respect by brokers and Senators alike. The Revolt oj the Masses (TIME, Sept. 19, 1932) was one of those surprise best-sellers which was not aimed at the large depression-chastened audience it found. That book established Professor José Ortega y Gasset in the U. S. consciousness as an original and forceful thinker-about-civilization. Last...
...plays them, I understand, excellently. It always struck me that, if the Embassy should be attacked, our best defense would not be to gather in the hall, but to wait until Mr. Ogilvie-Forbes marched downstairs playing The Flowers of the Forest. It would have appealed overwhelmingly to a Spaniard's sense of curiosity, even if it did not scare him out of his wits...
Both Fannies married. Fanny Keats, five years after her brother's death, was first. She married a Spaniard, one Valentine Llanos, settled in Spain. Fanny Brawne followed suit when she was 33 and her grief for John was 12 years old. As Mrs. Louis Lindon she became the mother of three, a tranquil matron; she lived to a ripe...