Word: vivas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Galician troops went down to the shore and jubilantly planted their red & gold banners in the sands. Not a few hands made the ceremony complete by going in for a swim. The populace under Leftist rule for the past 21 months changed politics quickly. Shouting the Franco shibboleth, "Viva España!", they lined the streets as the troops marched in, singing "For God, Fatherland and King did our ancestors battle! For God, Fatherland and King also battle...
When the late Charles Flandrau (Viva Mexico!) was a star Saturday Evening Post contributor 40 years ago, one thing mightily depressed him. That was the changes that took place in his stories when they appeared in print. If he gave one of his characters a highball, the drink became a glass of lemonade. In those days a Post character might kill Indians, but he could not smoke a cigaret. Last week a collection of 22 stories chosen from the 234 published in last year's Saturday Evening Post revealed how greatly they had changed since that genteel period. Post...
...waiting with great impatience. We are responsible people of Gijón and the enthusiasm in our streets is overwhelming. Arriba España! Viva Franco...
...previous challenger, Endeavour I, from its new owner, Commodore H. A. Andreae of the Royal Southern Yacht Club, help him bear the expense of taking both boats to the U. S. as alternative challengers. En route, Endeavour I slipped her towline from Mr. Sigrist's motor yacht Viva and was unsighted for ten anxious days...
Same week their boats started back in tow of their motor yachts. Endeavour I was skippered by Ned Heard, veteran of Sir Thomas Lipton's challengers. Endeavour II by 58-year-old George Williams. After three days Viva returned to Newport to announce that Endeavour I had once again snapped her towline-this time in a hurricane gale. After a week of frenzied search by the U. S. Coast Guard, Lloyd's of London announced that she had been sighted by the British tanker Amastra 750 miles off the Azores, tolled its historic Lutine Bell at the good...