Word: brazilians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...furor over candid camera photographs in the White House began a year ago when, before and during the signing of the Brazilian Trade Agreement, Thomas D. McAvoy unleashed his tiny Leica with specially sensitized film, snapped pictures of the unaware President glancing at letters and orders, puffing out his cheeks, pursing his lips, gulping a drink of water...
...Janeiro opera. One night the regular leader was unable to appear and some one suddenly thought of the quiet little Italian who never used a score. Toscanini went to the stand in a borrowed frock coat many sizes too big, conducted Aida completely from memory. Lately an aged Brazilian critic attempted to describe the perfection of that performance. Toscanini's comment: "Ah, but he is wrong. I made two mistakes, one in the first act, another in the third...
...Brazilian government is cooperating in this pioneering enterprise, which will be continued for about a year...
Branching into elementary zoology Gillman informed the court that an ahu was a Central Asian gazelle, an ani a Brazilian variety of the keel-billed cuckoo. No slang, he insisted, was pah, which meant "bah, faugh, fudge...
With War breaking in Europe, however, the "River of Doubt" was soon forgotten by everyone but cartographers. The Brazilian Government had confirmed the name "Rio Roosevelt," subsequently changed it to "Rio Téodoro." In 1919 Theodore Roosevelt died. In 1927 George Miller Dyott made a second trip down the river, found it as his predecessor had described. And in 1931 Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt journeyed from Albany to Manhattan to lay the cornerstone of the New York State Theodore Roosevelt Memorial, voted by the State Legislature at a cost of $3,700,000. Connected with the main building...