Word: spaniards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fortnight ago the symphony invited swart-tempered Spaniard Jose Iturbi to conduct next spring, offered him passage in an R.A.F. bomber and an acoustically perfect air-raid shelter. Last week Iturbi was still thinking it over...
...glow of the Inquisition. The best painter in all Spain, Theotokopoulos became wealthy, got himself a 24-room palace, a beautiful wife named Doña Jerónima de las Cuevas, a scholar's library, musicians from Venice to play for him at mealtimes. But to the Spaniards he was never a real Spaniard. They called him, condescendingly, ''El Greco...
...went on the Paris stage. Her extraordinary vocal cords contrived few public beeps, and no acrobatics at all, until after she was married-to August Mesritz, a wealthy, middle-aged Dutch lawyer and journalist. Husband Mesritz resolved that Lily should sing, took her to Alberti di Gorostiaga, an elegant Spaniard who ignored French gender but knew everything about bel canto singing technique. Exclaimed di Gorostiaga: "Mlle. Pons, he is a charming, a gentle lady, he is the most hard-working pupil of my life, he has the range of Patti...
Then the group conferred. Herr Hitler undoubtedly explained the Axis plans for Greece, and presumably there were words about Gibraltar and Spanish bases in Morocco. Herr Hitler dined and wined the Spaniard, and told him that he was going to present the Spanish Catholic Church with some gorgeous holy vessels, pictures and statues (stolen from Poland). Then the heroes parted...
...University of Kansas City goes Spaniard Luis Quintanilla ... to start the first university school of fresco painting in the U. S." (TIME, Sept...