Word: spaniards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...action commences in 18th century France during the honeymoon of a Spanish nobleman with the young daughter of an English merchant. Enraged at being cuckolded by an English officer, the Spaniard allows his wife to die in childbirth, and he deposits the child in a convent. Unknowingly apprenticed to his own grandfather, the child grows up to become the heir and hope of the family firm, the Casa da Bonnyfeather...
...emaciated clowns and absinthe drinkers in the 1900's, through the cubist experiments, the heavy-hipped "classical" goddesses, the pure abstractions, and the portraits, flavored strongly by Ingres, through surrealism until 1934 when, sued by his wife for divorce, he temporarily gave up painting. A morose, silent Spaniard more interested in the technique of painting than the problems of humanity, Artist Picasso avoids appointments whenever possible, lurks in Paris carrying three watches to be sure to be on time for those he must keep...
...Latin oration about Democracy being at the crossroads in Madrid was completely stultified by Orator Alvarez del Vayo himself when he announced that last week the Madrid Cabinet was not going to ask any action of the League Assembly. "The era of national wars is fast disappearing!" cried the Spaniard in his best passage. "Just as in the 16th Century in Europe men took sides and fought in the name of two religious ideals, Catholicism and Protestantism, so today, it would appear, men are divided by two political ideals, democracy and oppression. . . . The blood-stained soil of Spain is already...
...minutes radio listeners on the Mutual Broadcasting chain heard nothing but ad-libbing by an anxious announcer. Conductor Iturbi, it became apparent, balked at starting Impressions of Buenos Aires by José André. To Cleveland's Conductor Rudolph Ringwall, who asked what was the matter, the stocky Spaniard snapped: ''Piano!" Ringwall, who is not psychic, finally gathered that Iturbi wanted a pianist to help with the Impressions. While the Clevelander was off hunting one, Iturbi informed his orchestra: "I've just sent a telegram to New York asking to be released from this series. Understand...
Despite the fact that at rehearsals Conductor Iturbi had given everyone a clear impression that he did not consider a pianist essential, the swart Spaniard stormed: "Did I not give the librarian the score the day before? Did [it] not say Impressions of Buenos Aires requires a pianist? And then, when I am about to commence, there is no pianist! Without a pianist I do not play!" Iturbi on frankfurters: "Hot dogs! The audience eating hot dogs while we play the second symphony of Jean Sibelius! People scraping their feet on the floor. Like thees : Scrape ! scrape ! Madre de Dios...