Word: carlist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...under Russian domination. The church was harassed; even the language was under attack. Conrad left Poland at 16. At Marseilles, he became a bit of a heller on a £3OO-a-year allowance from an indulgent uncle. Still in his teens, he ran guns for the Carlist forces in Spain, ran into debt, had an affair with a mysterious femme fatale called Rita. An absurd expatriate from North Carolina named Captain Blunt shot and wounded Conrad in a duel over that lady's honor. For no better reason than that he liked the cut of an English jib, Conrad...