Word: 90s
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Venezuela, represented at the conference by its Ambassador to Washington, Dr. Don Diogenes Escalante, once served as a successful proving ground for the Monroe Doctrine. The occasion: when Great Britain grew choleric over a contested boundary line on the British Guiana frontier in the '90s...
...lost figure and sixteen chins. . . . Then you shall see me come out strong." So wrote, not perverse Jonathan Swift to his 18th-Century Stella, but moonstruck, middle-aged George Bernard Shaw to the lovely Mrs. Patrick Campbell. Year after year, in a stream extending from the '90s till long after the war, the most merciless of scoffers wrote the lady the most extravagant of love letters (as he also did to Actress Ellen Terry). To her the scoffer even babbled baby talk. For her he wrote Pygmalion. Against her, even when she tacked on her own ending...
...idea was not brand-new. It had been tried before in the '90s. But the peep-show flickers of those days were often patchy and scratchy, and the machines usually stalled. Fred Mills was satisfied that his company could lick the machine problem with a neat projector and 18-by-24-inch mirror screen. It could show 16 or 35 mm. shorts to the U. S. cinemillions outside the movie houses, if Hollywood could provide the shorts...