Word: counte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Foreign Minister, Franco named blond, blue-eyed General Francisco Gómez Jordana y Souza, an anti-Falangist Tradicionalista who was Foreign Minister when the U.S. recognized Franco's Government in 1939. Count Gómez Jordana is considered less pro-Axis than Serrano but was loudly pro-German in World...
...their own backyard, and Hollywood's checks could be waved away. The ten owners-Producer Oscar Serlin, Adapters Lindsay & Crouse, Mrs. Clarence Day, John Hay Whitney and the rest-saw Life With Father gross $973,000 on Broadway the first year, $860,000 the second, could still count on a tidy sum the third, while road companies grossed $2,000,000 more. Inwardly they rocked with laughter thinking of the $15,000 Warner Bros, had once offered for the film rights; but last year when Mary Pickford offered half a million, their no was just as brusque...
...arias-and of course translates them into English. Rossini's The Barber of Seville, now in rehearsal, he telescoped from a three-and-a-half to a two-and-a-half-hour opera (including intermissions), put in spoken dialogue, built up the lesson scene between Rosina and the Count by adding comedy lines, changed Dr. Bartolo from a typical Italian buffo character (quavering, senile old man with red putty nose) into a near likeness of Cinemactor Frank Morgan. Dr. Bartolo's first aria he changed from a scolding song into a Gilbert-&-Sullivanian self-analysis...
Caviar to Bonbons. At the main table Stalin sat with Churchill on his right and Harriman on his left. Wine, vodka and champagne washed down 26 courses, beginning with caviar and ending with bonbons. After 25 toasts, count was lost. Guests left as the morning sun struck the Kremlin's eastern battlements. Churchill who has dressed for dinner virtually every night of his adult life, wore his zippered overall "siren suit." What prompted him to wear it, what protests from Sawyers he overruled, he alone knew. Moscow wondered, decided finally that he was an "individualist...
Another factor in favor of the Russians is the approaching winter which is just as severe around Stalingrad as it is in the Moscow region, although delayed for two or three weeks. According to Karpovich, however, the Germans have about two months of fair weather upon which they may count...