Word: 15th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...15th Century, fragments of obscure Indian tribes, having wandered across Asia and Europe, turned up in Britain. Englishmen thought the swarthy nomads were Egyptians, shortened the word to gypsies. Gypsies did not mind. To them all gorgios (nongypsies) were boro dinellos (big fools) to be tricked and preyed on by the jinni Romanis (clever gypsies). Except for the contacts inevitable in dukkering (fortunetelling), dooking gri (casting a spell on horses to lower their value and price) or drabbing baulor (poisoning a farmer's pigs so that the gypsies could buy the carcasses cheaply for food), gypsies wanted no part...
With art, literary, and business boards already organized. Wake officials say the next issue will appear on the news stands around the 15th of November. Wake will continue to publish once every two months until the June issue, after which it will become a monthly...
Chicago's afternoon tabloid, the breezy, crusading, pro-Roosevelt Times, celebrated its 15th birthday last week by announcing that it had topped the Chicago Daily News in circulation for the first time (429,319 to 427,621 daily average in August). It also celebrated by gleefully reviving a triumph over its archfoe, Colonel McCormick's Chicago Tribune...
Then she slipped quietly back to her attic to read some more about Joan. The Maid, Simone noted, had not been put to death by the English invaders, but by 15th-Century French quislings. Soon Si mone found herself in the same fix. A haughty Marquis, the town's political boss, kept a collaborationist eye on her. Her Uncle Planchard was furious with her too, because of the gasoline tanks. Simone was arrested and, like Joan, lost her nerve, signed a confession. But when courage returned, Simone repudiated her confession, gallantly went off to Burgundy's most ruthless...
Once a rival of Florence, San Gimignano had already dropped to commercial obscurity by the 15th Century, had drifted on to modern times almost unchanged, a perfect relic of Dante's Italy. Thirteen of its original 72 square towers still survived...