Word: valencia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Iturbi was born in Valencia 34 years ago. In his early 'teens he won honors at the Valencia and Paris Conservatories but today he says that he has learned most by listening. At 24, while playing in a Zurich café, he was asked to go to the Geneva Conservatory as head of the piano faculty, a post once held by the great Franz Liszt. He accepted, stayed in Geneva for four years, then embarked on a concert career with immediate success...
...Cortes (parliament). Even in exile Don José remained the acknowledged leader of Spain's parties of the Left. Last January his followers perfected elaborate plans to stage simultaneous risings of Spanish garrisons on a certain day. On that day Exile José Sanchez Guerra was to land at Valencia, proclaim and lead the revolution...
...from France in a chartered tramp steamer. Her engines broke down. He reached Valencia two days late, after the revolution had fizzled, and just in time to be arrested for High Treason...
Though unquestionably guilty, the nice old gentleman has so many potent friends in Spain that all through the spring, summer and fall he lived luxuriously in the officers' quarters of a Spanish battleship anchored off Valencia. He has just been acquitted by the supreme war tribunal before which he resolutely professed his guilt...
Last summer the Directors of the Museum discovered in France a set of embroideries hitherto unknown and unpublished, probably done near Valencia in Spain around 1400, a period from which very few embroideries are in existence today. The large cross-shaped orphrey from the back of the chasuble represents the cruicified Christ; at the foot are the emblems of the Passion and a beautifully unified group composed of the Vigin, Saint John and Mary Magdalene. The wood of the cross is carried out in stitches following the grain, and the background is worked in threads of pure gold couched...