Word: castellana
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Farther inland the Allies swung around craterlike Lake Bracciano, dashed into walled Viterbo, classical home of hand-ome fountains and beautiful women. More than 400 smashed Nazi vehicles strewed Highway No. 2 from Rome. Near Highway No. 3, outside Civita Castellana, General Mark Clark's men found the tunneled underground stronghold where Kesselring had joked with his staff, studied his maps...
...birthday of Spain's Republic, the anniversary of the day Alfonso XIII fled from his country. Airplanes dropped 50,000 little red, yellow and purple parachutes; there were gala football matches and bullfights. Pink with pleasure, tousle-haired President Niceto Alcala Zamora reviewed 10,000 troops in the Castellana avenue, presided over a lunch to the diplomatic corps. He was too excited to remember to go to a broadcasting studio in time to speak to the Americas. Madrid crowds, never anxious to go to bed, danced in the Puerta del Sol all night. The keynote speech was made...
Silver, Burdett and Company, of New York, have recently published a book by Dr. J. D. M. Ford, of the Department of Romance Languages, entitled "Anthologia Castellana." The book is a collection of Spanish lyrics from the thirteenth century to the present day. It differs from other collections mainly in that it goes back to an earlier period, including selections from such poets as Campoamor, Valere and Nunez de Arce. From each century typical authors have been chosen, and the various poems have been selected with a view to representing the movements in which the authors played a part...