Word: bleakness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Things might have been even worse were it not for the prompt arrest of Dr. Villana. Dr. Villana, a sinister figure who could only exist in a romantic novel or modern Spain, is a wandering Gypsy physician who has tramped the bleak hills of Andalusia for years healing the sick and preaching bloody revolution. He and his staff of conspirators were arrested last week just as they were planning a triumphal entrance into Seville. The tavern of the Brothers Cornelio, a notorious Syndicalist meeting place, was surrounded by artillery. Well-trained gunners blew the little bodega to bits with three...
Strikes gripped Valencia, Tarragona, Bilbao. In Guillena began the first cowherds' strike in Spanish history. Hundreds of cowherds rode in off the bleak Andalusian ranges, demanding more pay, leaving hundreds of black Spanish cattle bellowing pitifully for water. The Governor of Se ville mobilized a squadron of cavalry and sent them forth with a ringing message that reporters wired round the world: "Soldiers of Spain! Go to Guillena and lead the cows to pasture...
Half a dozen flat-faced Eskimos and a little group of sad-eyed arctic puffins sat on the bleak rocks of Myggbukta (Mosquito Bay), Greenland, recently while a party of five explorers, snug-buttoned in woolies, tacked the Norwegian flag to an improvised flagstaff. The event seemed of only passing interest to the Eskimos and the puffins, but when news of it broke last week all Scandinavia seethed...
Survivors of the tragedy were taken to a hospital at Lamar. Although snug in their warm beds, many a frightened scream escaped them in the night as the children, fast asleep, dreamed of the terrifying hours in the bleak...
...being found. Globe, Ariz, bubbled with excitement last week on the report that the so-called "Lost Dutchman" mine in Superstition Mountain had been found again after 20 years. Several weeks ago more than 500 men, many jobless, were stampeded by a rumor of gold from Calgary to the bleak, cold Livingstone River Valley 100 miles away. Australia still teems with excitement over a 94-lb. nugget found two months ago. Gold-rich Africa is the scene of similar tension. And last week in San Ignacio, Mexico, one Guillermo Laveaga came out of the hills and caused a gold-rush...