Word: spanishly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Gabriel Welles, art collector, presented Harvard with the original manuscript of Thomas Wolfe's "Look Homeward Angel" which he purchased for $1700 at an action staged by the League of American Writers for the benefit of the Spanish Loyalists...
Premier Negrin soon found a way out. In the half-Spanish, half-French border village of Le Perthus he established his Government in a house, No. 22 on the main street of the village, the back door of which was in Spanish territory, the front in French. The Spanish section of the town was temporarily made the fifth capital of Loyalist Spain. But not for long. When the triumphant Rebels pressed forward to the frontier (see p. 16), Premier
...stanchly antimonarchist, he could have stepped right out of a Blasco Ibañez novel. He was such an individualist that no pat modern political name-calling would fit him, no government could have suited him. More a syndicalist than anything else, he belonged to the fast dwindling group of Spanish Federalists...
...president of a juridical council you sat in this same room and condemned and robbed persons whose only crime was to disagree with your politics. You have always been antinational, unpatriotic and un-Spanish, and as one of the leaders of a false revolutionary movement you actively persecuted and ordered the torture of fellow Spaniards...
Last October Japan took advantage of the demoralization after Munich to step quietly south and seize Canton, at the back door of British Hong Kong. Stepping just as quietly, last week she took advantage of the confusion of the Spanish war's climax, went still farther south and occupied the island of Hainan, at the front door of French Indo-China...