Word: caf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...which brought him his new post, Bill O'Dwyer seemed a happy choice for a sunny job. Mexicans were complimented by his political prominence in the U.S., pleased that he is a Catholic, and tickled with his pretty wife and his appreciation of bullfighting. In the bullfighters' Café Tupinamba, a torero seriously explained, "A good fan of the bulls cannot be an imperialist."'And the ballad singers in buses and bars spread the news in a hastily composed corrido...
...Pappy? Unlike most comic artists, Capp seems to attract readers in well-defined layers, each stratum as distinct as the segments of a pousse-café. Not all of them love him-some of the most virulent prose of the last decade has come from outraged Abner readers who have written to complain that he is undermining 1) the U.S. mind, 2) the nation's morals or 3) the Constitution itself...
...charms of modern Hellas is that everyone plays the national game of kani politiki (making politics). A fixture of the scene in an Athens café or in any village taverna is at least one Greek spread over five chairs (a prop for each arm, one for each foot and one to sit on), waiting for his vari gliko (strong, sweet coffee), and noting on the back of a box of cigarettes this list: Populists 62, Liberals 62, Union of the Center 46, Social Democrats 34, Union of the Left 11, Unionists 6. These are the main political parties, with...
That night 60 members of the local sports club assembled in a café to protest the new name on Saint-Junien's stadium and sent a deputation out to pull down the wooden sign. The following day Mayor Pascaud ordered a new sign put up. During the night that one too was pulled down. For five days and nights this maneuver was repeated. Last week the Communist mayor of Saint-Junien issued an order. Henceforth, he said, a municipal employee would hang a sign reading "Stade Maurice Thorez" on the stadium each morning and take it down each...
...Rose (Louis Armstrong; Decca). Satchmo goes continental with a gravel-voiced version of the Edith Piaf café favorite...