Word: chico
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Louis D'Arclay gave a spirited performance as Chico, the sewer rat who never let life get the better of him. When he prayed to "le bon Dieu" for his heart's desire, a job on "the hose", a wife with yellow hair, and a ride in a taxi-cab, and even payed good money to burn candles to his favorite saint, nothing happened; and so Chico forthwith became an atheist and went around proclaiming that God owed him fifteen francs. And it must have done some good for eventually God paid the debt. Tormented by a wicked, dope-ridden...
South America. A rich deposit of dinosaur fossils was discovered along the Rio Chico in the Chubut Territory of Patagonia, by a party from the Field Museum, Chicago, under Professor Elmer S. Riggs...