Word: capet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rebels, having lost most of their fanatical, hard-core Communist capetánios, pressed even children and old men into service. Said a Communist artillery commander who last week surrendered along with his Tommy-gun-toting mistress: "How could one have faith in an army of young boys and girls and of old men leaning on their sticks...
Rings on His Fingers. This band was led by a capetánios named Papouas, a onetime physical culture student in Athens who had joined ELAS during the German occupation. Papouas boasted that he had been a scourge of Thessaly and Roumelia for seven years. The name Papouas was a pseudonym-taken, he said, from a primitive tribe whose members wore rings on their fingers and toes and in their noses. Papouas had many rings, but he wore them only on his hands...
Smart, cold-blooded businessman though he is, Maney sometimes takes on flops, turns down successes. Last season he almost took on Madame Capet, which ran for seven performances, instead of Oscar Wilde, which ran for 247. He sets his income at $25,000 a year; Broadway sets it higher...