Word: montjuich
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Barcelona, conquered month ago by the Rebel Armies, was last week given its first look since the beginning of the war at the No. 1 Rebel, Generalissimo Francisco Franco. Early one morning a 21-gun salute roared out from Montjuich fortress as Generalissimo Franco, accompanied by his Moorish guard, motored into the centre of the city. Taking his place on a stand on Barcelona's large and battered Via Diagonal, now appropriately renamed Avenida del Caudillo (Avenue of the Chief) for El Caudillo Franco, the Generalissimo reviewed units of the seven Army corps that had taken part...
When General Juan Yague's troops reached the 600-foot-high hill of Montjuich commanding Barcelona's harbor they saw a white flag flying from the fortress. When General Garcia Valino's soldiers climbed the summit of Tibidabo, on the west, and looked down upon the city gleaming in brilliant sunshine, they saw white sheets, towels and Rebel red & gold bunting flying from windows and housetops...
...western force were to take the mountains that lie immediately above and behind Barcelona, and if the southern column were to take the fortress of Montjuich. which lies on a promontory that commands Barcelona from the sea side, the city had small chance of holding out. Madrid has held out for two and a half years. But Madrid stands like a fort on a plain. Barcelona lies defenseless...
Neither Max Schmeling, onetime world's heavyweight champion, nor old Paulino ("the Basque Woodchopper") Uzcudun; a 12-round bout; in a three-ring boxing carnival in Montjuich Stadium at Barcelona, Spain...
...Barcelona flung brickbats and shrilled curses at their scab sisters in the central offices, Barcelona's Civil Governor decided that the time was ripe to raid some of the music halls on the Paralelo, Barcelona's trolley terminus and rowdiest thoroughfare, at the foot of towering Montjuich. Here, he had been informed, female entertainers were celebrating the liberty of the Republic by dancing in the raw. Po licemen looking strangely British in scarlet tunics and blue helmets, swooped down on the Moulin Rouge and the Royal Concert.* There was no objection until word was passed that two rival...