Word: calle
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...half-world of Parisian cafes and dance halls did the Vicomte feel at home. Of these, from 1885 to his death in 1901, Toulouse-Lautrec became the greatest delineator. Strumpets, vaudevillians and circus performers admired him for his talents, acid wit and title, but they did not call him M. le Vicomte, or even Henri. Because the paunchy Prince of Wales (Edward VII) was the darling of Paris, because French gentlemen wore monocles and London clothes, and British music hall stars filled the stages, they called him 'Ennry...
...last week on the grounds that it might cause reprisals-arrested a Chinese on a minor charge in Seattle. The culprit talked freely about a much more interesting compatriot named Chin Joo Hip in Butte, Mont. Chin Joo Hip, a wrinkled, cadaverous tongman with drooping white mustaches, received a call from the agent, who pretended to be the nephew of a rich Pacific Coast gangster. Presently they were fast friends. When the agent left to go East to buy opium for his "uncle," he had a warm letter of introduction to a tongsman named Jimmy Wong...
...week but vigorously boiled a question now vexing socialists in many lands: whether those Communist forces which have made the Soviet Union what it is today-the Stalinist forces - now largely dominate Leftist Spain or not. Last month worried Manhattan socialists sent Associate Editor Sam Baron of the Socialist Call to investigate conditions in Barcelona and Valencia where were occurring the trials of several prominent Spanish labor leaders for fomenting "Trotskyist riots." Mr. Baron, onetime New York president of the Bookkeepers, Stenographers & Accountants Union, has been active in leading U. S. organizations working for Leftist Spain. Instead of being permitted...
...they call him One-Eye Pete-and is he bad-Madonna!" ¶ "Here's how your stomach feels when you ride in one of them [rollercoaster] cars...
...records go the Welsh have been a singing people, rating a good voice next to royal blood, competing valiantly in song festivals, regarding music and poetry as national sports. Roman Poseidonius of Apamea noted in the second Century B.C., that the inhabitants of Wales "have poets whom they call bards, who sing songs of eulogy and of satire, accompanying themselves on instruments very like the lyre." Even hard-headed Julius Caesar, with his general's ear for music, mentioned in his Gallic War that the Druidic warriors "learn by heart a great number of verses." Scholars have long puzzled...