Word: caf
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Some 15,000 policemen in Western Germany, Austria, Italy and the Scandinavian countries peered into cafés, bordellos, hotels, airports. The search spread to Cyprus and Malta; Egypt's police were watching the entire western desert coastline...
...were Trotsky's dying words to his friends. "She has been with me for a long time." Natalia Sedova, daughter of a bourgeois Ukrainian family, was a student in Paris when, in 1902, she met the bookish, intolerant young intellectual who spent his time playing chess in smoky cafés, dreaming violent dreams of world revolution. For the next 38 years, she followed Leon Trotsky around the world-Spain, Switzerland, Finland, the U.S., Norway, Germany, Turkey, Russia -into exile and to the gates of many a prison...
Manhattan's furred & feathered café socialites turned out for an opening meal on the house when the Gayelord Hauser "Look Younger" Menu became a regular part of the Savoy-Plaza cuisine. Along with such unfamiliar entrées as yogurt and wild rice nut-burgers, they downed many a sample of the only cocktail recommended. "The grapefruit juice is for health," explained TV's Eloise McElhone, "and the gin is for sin." Quickly downing one himself, Dietitian Hauser strode to the microphone, proudly announced that Mrs. Betty Henderson, café society's 75-year-old flapper...
...friends in the labor movement came to the rescue. Eva Duarte had run away from an impoverished household in rural Junin to seek a career in the Buenos Aires theater. Though at first she wangled only a few small parts in radio and the movies, she got around in café society and made many an influential friend. One night in 1943, she met Juan Perón, then an eligible widower, at a radio party. Before many months, Colonel Perón moved into a new apartment in fashionable Calle Posadas; Eva Duarte had an apartment there, too. Evita...
...Greenwich Village's Café Society last week, she gave her nightclub fans a prayer dance first. "That makes the audience think 'Here is a person who is serious,' " Pearl says. "Once I show them my dignified side, I can be as wild as I feel." When she got down to the "strength" and "fertility" dances, her thrusting, thumping power, matched to the savage beat of a hand-patted African drum, was wild enough to stand the customer's hair on end. It was all certified genuine: "Everything I do is consistent with what...