Word: 20s
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...least as stalwart a Saudi dynast as his brother the King, and might well be the chieftain with the stature and ability to save the Saudi regime. He is widely considered abler, more vigorous and more cultivated than his elder brother. In the desert campaigns of the '20s and '30s he fought for his warrior-father with greater flair and daring. While his taciturn brother stayed home holding interminable levees among dusty tribal sheiks, Feisal, majestically robed and daggered, represented his country at international conferences in Europe and America...
...born to a road and bridge contractor who moved to Argentina in the great migration from Italy in the 1890s. Born in the northern province of Corrientes, he reached the University of Buenos Aires in time to choose between the fashionable political trends of Argentina in the late '20s: the right-wing nationalists led by the Prussianized army, and the University leftists. Frondizi turned left, went in for Marx and Kropot-kin-but pulled up short of becoming a socialist or Communist. Instead, he breezed through law school in three years and turned down the school's Diploma...
...vacations, Outdoorsman Eisenhower has permitted only really foul weather to keep him indoors, and even then has chafed at the weather. This time he hardly seemed to care: each morning he asked Hagerty for the weather forecasts, grinned and mock-shivered at the answer (Thomasville temperatures were in the 20s and 30s) returned contentedly to the firqside. Not until his eighth day in Thomasville did he venture forth to go quail hunting. He was so gruff with newsmen who came out to see him ("It's really something when you have to make this a news event to write...
Died. Dame Christabel Pankhurst, 77, daughter of Pioneer Suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst, and herself a jail-hopping crusader for women's rights who switched her militancy in the '20s to evangelism (heralding the Second Coming of Christ), was named Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire by George V in 1936; in Santa Monica, Calif...
...teens. Dagmar taught Nijinsky to foxtrot. In her 20s. after she reached Hollywood, she married Western Star Frank Mayo. In her 305, after a second marriage that lasted only half an hour, by her account, she fell in love with Igor Stravinsky and some dozens of other men. "How did I do it?" she wonders. "All those men in so little time? They're just shadows now. They were even then...