Word: colas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...statement in front of a lamppost while the mob is shouting, urging that he be hanged. . . . From about a hundred yards we watch helplessly what is happening. There is a priest beside Eguino. . . . Right now Eguino was killed with two shots and hanged. He drank a bottle of Coca-Cola just before he died." That night, while the bodies were still hanging, there was a sudden flash of lightning. All city lights went out for ten or 15 seconds. In the frightened crowd in the plaza a woman screamed: "The voice of God-it is God punishing...
...rich and elegant as ever; the beaming groom gave the blushing bride $25,750 worth of prizes and "art fellowships." Served up in Manhattan's stuffy National Academy of Design, "Paintings of the Year" (267 of the 5,034 entries) was a better show than its two Pepsi-Cola predecessors, but it was nevertheless a massive layer cake of second-rate work. On top lay a thin icing of successful...
Manhattan's art season got under way with a loud pop this week. The annual Pepsi-Cola show had come to town...
...another water famine caused a trackside crisis. Santiago's aqueduct broke down, cutting off the water supply for 1,200,000 people, and leaving the Hipódromo without water to develop pictures of a photo finish. Track authorities saved the day. They developed the films in Coca-Cola...
...been dickering with a sign outfit in Joplin, but they're too busy with a bunch of Coca-Cola signs right now. It looks like Truman's going to be out before we get those signs...