Word: valencias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...personalities were elected: Novelist Vicente Blasco Ibanez' son from Valencia, and that plump aerial cutup, Major Ramon Franco, who broke his leg last week when a campaign platform collapsed under him, from Barcelona...
...Valencia, other students expressed similar Republican ardor by smashing windows, throwing desks, chairs, bookcases out of the university windows, then swarming through the streets throwing stones, firing shots at the police. Civil guards, flourishing sabres above their varnished hats, stopped the riot with a clattering cavalry charge...
Dainty, almost birdlike charm and a faculty for making every stage picture blend gracefully with the music - these are the chief reasons for Bori's success at Manhattan's Metropolitan and at Ravinia. She is a Borgia, descendant and namesake of the Renaissance Lucrezia. In Valencia, Spain, where she was born, the stage was considered an undignified profession for an aristocrat. Lucrezia went to Italy, changed her name, won fame overnight as "Manon Lescaut." She has gone back to Spain many times since then, never once sung there in public...
...years ago (she was 22) success was instant. Two years later a node formed on one of her vocal cords, took away her voice. She underwent an operation which left her a croak little better than a grackle's. She underwent the knife again, went back to Valencia, lived outdoors, burned countless candles to La Virgen Maria and waited months, not speaking out loud. When the voice did come back it was some time before she dared test it. Again she went to Italy, cared for the wounded in War hospitals. It was in 1919 that she returned...
Facing his accusers, the "Grand old Democrat" began by proudly confessing to the treasonable charge against him- that he had indeed come from France to Valencia in a leaky old tramp steamer for the sole purpose of leading an insurrection against the present Government of Spain. Whole volumes of typically Spanish controversy have arisen as to whether Revolutionist Sanchez Guerra was received by the Captain General of Valencia "with a closed door"-i.e. whether the highest military official of the province was himself ready to become a party to the revolution...