Word: chico
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chico, the piano-playing Marx Brother, sued Warner Bros, for $200,000. His complaint: his name had been bandied about in the dialogue of Rhapsody in Blue without his permission. Furthermore, said he, he was quoted in the picture as endorsing certain pianistic techniques to which he would actually never subscribe...
...hundred and sixty-five fishermen were lost. The whole coast mourned them, but the greatest sorrow was in the village of Matosinhos, nearly all of whose men were drowned. The Rola family lost four men, who between them left 21 children. Old Mother Cunha sat rocking back & forth: "Belmiro, Chico, my beloved ones, come back to me." In a corner, silent and white-faced, sat Chico's bride of five months...
...Marx Brothers outdo themselves in this revived 1937 classic. The chase, the great delaying action, Groucho scooting around like a bowlegged buzzard, and all the traditional slapstick routines are crammed into a confusing but hilarious "Room Service." According to the screenplay, Groucho is a producer who has no backers, Chico an unidentified character who lives with Groucho and owns a large stuffed moose head, and Harpo an actor who plays a dead body in Groucho's epic. But as in all their films, the zany trio slip in and out of their plot roles as the occasion demands; so Groucho...
...Concorde. But in the warm spring air the paraders sauntered listlessly, shouting their war cries with only perfunctory venom. A few demonstrators shouted: "A has la politique du dollar!" (Down with dollar diplomacy!)* in front of a Marxist movie from the U.S.-A Night in Casablanca, starring Groucho, Chico and Harpo. A woman stood weeping as she watched the Red Flags flutter close to France's own tricolore. "In the days of the occupation," she said, "Nazi flags, too, were sandwiched between French tricolores. They were tricolores without meaning. Now it is the same...
...Femmes, would have a meaning which would have distressed Louisa May, of Concord, Mass. The Frenchman of the street confused the name 'March' (the family name of Miss Alcott's Little Women) with Marx, made famous in France as elsewhere by the inimitable Groucho, Harpo and Chico. So Little Women was named The Marx Sisters, and was believed by many purchasers, who were later disappointed, to have the zany qualities which have become synonymous with America's distinguished comedians...