Word: blanca
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...Five-Year Plan now appears in English, illustrated with the same drawings as the edition taught today in Soviet schools ($1.75).-ED. Dutch Stories Sirs: Thank you for squibs Netherlandish: "Waterier Prize" (Peace); "Sir Henry Deterding" (Oil); "Dutch Empire" (Gov. Gen. Davis' East Indian jaunt); "Hollandish Opening" (Capa-blanca's chess...
...greatest number of opponents, but not the greatest number of games. In 1922 at the National Athletic Club in Montreal, Frank Marshall, U. S. master, played 155 on as many boards, won 126 games, drew 21, lost 8. His opponents, however, were not as able as Capa-blanca...
...Vulture, the Crow, and the Raven, heirs apparent before Mosca has finished his work, are all carefully done, and rather better than either of the two feminine leads, Canina, using Blanca's method in man-hunting, has barren ground for her seed in Mosca and Volpone, but her acting lifts when she finds Carbaccio more amorously accessible. Philip Leigh, the Vulture, managed his voice as well as usual, but had a crutch, a limp, and a hunch to his black and cloaked back, just when it was hoped that the stage, at least, had seen the last of Mr. Chaney...
...mother-no indeed, Judy was a child herself, for all her motherly ways. Baby Chipstone was her own brother, and her parents' chief bone of contention. Then there were the 12-year-old twins-Terry, a wise boy who longed wistfully for school or a tutor, and beautiful Blanca, a jealous little snob who recognized cruelly last year's Callot model, this year's Chanel. The rest were the "steps" (stepchildren) - Zinnie, orange-haired little devil with a fiery temperament and exaggerated acquisitive instinct; Beechy and Bun, Italian brother and sister, the one with a tendency toward...
General McCoy will return to Nicaragua to supervise on Nov. 4, 1928, in the name of the U. S., a Nicaraguan parliamentary election. Last week a detachment of Marines under Captain Robert S. Hunter were finally able to locate some of the elusive Sandinistas near Mount Pena Blanca. Result: Captain Hunter and Corporal William L. Williamson were killed, as were five Nicaraguans. The most lofty concept of what the U. S. is accomplishing in Nicaragua was recently voiced by U. S. Marine Corps Commander Major General John A. ("Leatherneck") Lejeune. Said he: "The Nicaraguan people need help, and the Marines...