Word: de
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that they could drop shells in Gibraltar but yet are invisible from the highest point on the rock": nine naval-type guns are located on Punta Carnero, on the west side of Gibraltar bay, and at least one 15-inch weapon on a high peak near Alcála de los Gazules, some 40 miles inland; 45 more guns, ranging in size from six to 15 inches, have been set up in Spanish Morocco, on the African coastline directly across from the fortress...
Most of French Guiana's chroniclers have followed a pat formula. The story usually starts with the teller being convicted of a felony. In a temporary prison at the citadel of St. Martin-de-Ré, in the Bay of Biscay, the convict awaits the sailing of the plodding 3,800-ton "hellship" La Martinière, formerly a German freighter, now outfitted with steel-girded cells and mutiny-suppressing hot-steam hose. Into her hold go Foreign Legion deserters, Algerian Spahis convicted of rape, French Indo-Chinese murderers, Circassian thieves, arch-crooks from Montmartre. The ship arrives...
...Adventures of Robin Hood (Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone, Claude Rains; TIME...
Last week La Gioconda's, smile was for a time in danger of disappearing forever. Fire broke out in some wooden scaffolding in the Pavilion de la Trémoille, where hang priceless Rubens and Rembrandt. The Mona Lisa was only 20 feet from the blaze. Workmen carried pictures hurriedly out of the room, covered others with canvas so they would not be damaged by firemen's hoses. When the excitement was over, not a single picture had been damaged. La Gioconda smiled...
Midget Billy Curtis, 29, 3 ft. 6 in., 79 lb., last January married onetime Manhattan nightclub Bouncer Lois De Fee, 19, 6 ft. 4 in., 190 lb. Last week little Billy Curtis, suing his big bride for divorce, complained: "She treated me like a doll...