Word: cubanize
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Deposited appropriately by a battleship on Cuban soil while Marines were planning a new bombing attack on Niearaguan villages. President Coolidge eloquently clouded the issue in the speech of optimistic generalities in which he assured a doubtful world that the interests of this country are anything but imperialistic. But if the United States treatment of South America where the investments of her citizens exceed the total of those placed in Europe is not imperialistic. It is a form of aggressive and armed commercialism. Foreign nations, forbidden themselves to interfere, have sneered at what they choose to call a hypocritical, forceful...
...Coolidge, Mrs. Kellogg, Mrs. Wilbur. It seemed likely that President & Mrs. Coolidge would maintain only a statutory residence on the Texas in Havana; that they would spend two nights (Jan. 15 & 16) as President Gerardo Machado's guests on the $2,000,000 freshly redecorated third floor of the Cuban Presidential Palace...
...heavy, bleached Cuban architecture ?single-story houses of limestone blocks; ponderous doors of studded mahogany; immense windows with iron grilles; big, fancy locks, bolts and knockers. There are no front yards...
...Cuban officials would not fail to point out to President Coolidge the 15�-million-dollar pleasure park projected near Havana by the U. S. Biltmore interests (John McEntee Bowman, chief); the 706-mile highway which Cuba is building from Pinar del Rio on the west to Santiago de Cuba on the southeast coast...
...queen's rook file. Play began the next night with the 41st move. On the 47th, both queens fell, leaving Alekhine with a rook, four pawns and the king. Capablanca refused to take the odd pawn at the price of exchanging rooks; Alekhine sent his king to destroy the Cuban's pawns and on the 82nd move, play stopped for the evening. The next night Capablanca did not, in the face of sure defeat, resume it. After the longest match in chess history?74 nights?there was a new champion...