Word: vivas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...full-length pictures run off for him at one sitting, knows the cast of every German movie comedy. (Another memory feat: ability to give by heart names and descriptions of all U. S., British warships.) Favorite cinema repeaters now are the U. S. films Lives of a Bengal Lancer, Viva Villa! He likes variety shows and his old preference for Wagnerian operas seems to have given way to light operas such as The Merry Widow...
...city which had once been the heart of Republican resistance soon echoed with cries of Arriba España! Viva Franco! The clenched fist became the upraised arm. Some 40,000 secret Fascist sympathizers -members of the Fifth Column-dropped their Republican disguise, took over the city even before the first of Franco's troops had crossed the Manzanares River and taken actual possession of Madrid. Out of hiding in foreign embassies and legations came hundreds of Franco partisans...
...British-backed negotiator who was largely responsible for turning the face of Madrid from defiance to surrender, counseled: "Madrileños! . . . The moment has arrived for avoiding further bloodshed. . . . Let us all be calm and serene, at present, accepting the surrender of Madrid as the best means of salvation. . . . Viva España!" Thus ended, after two years, four months and 21 days, one of the most heroically defended seiges in history...
Over the historic old waterfront of Cadiz, scene of one of Columbus's departures for the New World, Andalusians who had thrown few bouquets at the Italians when they arrived 20 months ago cried "Viva Italia! Viva Mussolini!" as 4,000 of the departing Latins gave a farewell salute to tough, boastful General Gonzalo Queipo de Llano, Commander of the Rightist Southern Army...
Although Lazaro Cardenas is a poor, mumbling speaker without Latin fire or grace, the General brought Mexico's pistol-toting Congressmen to their feet shouting "Viva!" again & again last week. They saw at once that with almost every word President Cardenas was baiting Secretary Hull. Mr. Hull had laid down in diplomatic terms that it is a violation of international law for Mexico to expropriate without immediate compensation. General Cardenas laid down in non-diplomatic terms that what Mexico has done is "for the greatest good of the greatest number of people," and said that in international law there...