Word: vega
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...mortifying the flesh, but only made himself ill without ecstasy. Bringing his imagination more sharply into focus, he peered through the popular novels of that spectacular moment of Spanish history in order to visualize the dusty, hungry, breakneck life of the common people. The amazing fertility of Lope de Vega, who wrote 2,200 plays, the cool, sinister elegance of El Greco, the salty, practical fervor of Saint Teresa gave Author Maugham a hint of the stormy intellectual and artistic climate in which his projected characters would live...
...Lope de Vega was acutely conscious of his honor, but when crossed in love revenged himself by writing scurrilous verses about his mistress' family. He wrote 20 pages a day and composed more than 200 full-length comedies in 24 hours each. Getting 50 ducats a play, he was the only professional writer among Spain's great. "When the younger generation came knocking at the door he firmly put his foot against it." Saint Teresa was a great saint but she was also a handsome woman who cried out when she saw her portrait: "God forgive...
...dawn the world's No. 1 airwoman climbed into her Lockheed Vega, warmed the big Wasp engine while soldiers herded horses, cows, goats, Mexicans out of the way. Then she taxied into a biting wind, lifted her three-ton ship off the ground after a perilous run of nearly two miles...
...reason of its proximity to the source of tobacco supply in Cuba, Florida manufactures about 10% of all cigars smoked in the U. S. Tampa boasts 146 factories producing $20,000,000 worth of cigars, including such well-known brands as Admiration, Perfecto Garcia, Bering, Optimo, Garcia y Vega. But the biggest cigar manufacturing centre is Pennsylvania which profited most from swift dramatic events in the cigar industry of the last decade...
...star shines in the sky, near to Vega, the chief component of the Lyre. It is easily seen just after sunset, sinking in the west; but it shares with the Big and Little Dippers the peculiarity of never setting in latitudes north of plus 45 degrees...