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Despite the $43,000 the U.S. would pay in annual rental, many another Panamanian felt as Alfaro did. When students at the National University and High School heard of the signing, they went on a paro doloroso (strike of sorrow). Next day, primed by pep talks from anti-Yankee professors, they were out for trouble. Armed with sticks, stones and one red flag, they headed for Panama City's Plaza Santa Ana to organize a "popular protest," and hoped to get the National Assembly to hold up the agreement. Halfway down the Avenida Central, police met them with tear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE HEMISPHERE: Millions for Defense | 12/22/1947 | See Source »

...occasion, Playwright Oboler had constructed This Lonely Heart, a doloroso radio fluoroscoping of the troubled soul of Tschaikowsky's ever-loving patroness, Mme von Meek (Nazimova...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Genius's Hour | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

...This number doubtless suggested serious thoughts to the compiler, for he accompanies it with the touching refrain, 'I've lost my doggy,' and the more pretensions, 'A horrible tale,' in eight-line stanzas with a moral beginning con dolore and increasing in pathos till it becomes as much more doloroso as possible...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOTES AND COMMENTS. | 11/20/1883 | See Source »

...This number doubtless suggested serious thoughts to the compiler, for he accompanies it with the touching refrain, 'I've lost my doggy,' and the more pretensions, 'A horrible tale,' in eight-line stanzas with a moral beginning con dolore and increasing in pathos till it becomes as much more doloroso as possible...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOTES AND COMMENTS. | 11/19/1883 | See Source »

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