Word: downes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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But in North Spain one man in three is in uniform, in Madrid one man in five; theatres shut down for two minutes at 11 p. m. for an official news broadcast and the national anthem; bullfights are suspended half way through for cheers for Franco, the anthem and the...
Ironic to Correspondent Longmire were posters warning Spanish women who had just passed through a bloody civil war of unsuspected dangers of peace. "Spanish women!" read one, "Beware of the cocktail! Beware of the one-piece bathing suit! Beware of the cigaret!" At San Sebastian, fashionable beach city, he admitted...
Professor Perrin is witty, authoritative, not too cocksure. Though mostly avoiding dicta, he lays down a few:
That is all. With Vanillan cheers and happy song echoing in his ears, Charlie wakes up back in concentration camp, a stormtrooper glowering down at him. Charlie smiles and the stormtrooper starts to smile back. Then his lips freeze and he bellows Charlie Chaplin's curtain line: "Get up...
It was Saratoga's Diamond Jubilee year, and last week's activity presaged a season as glittering as any in its glittering past. Never before had there been so many applications for stalls (57 trainers had to be turned away). All the famed "cottages" were rented (few socialites own homes...