Word: el
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wales, have seldom been popular in Spain, a country where the aristocracy is, and is expected to be, punctilious. Therefore, last week, as Edward of Wales continued his sojourn with the Spanish Royal Family (TIME, May 9), Spanish journalists of the more independent stamp bestowed on him a nickname: El Principe de Jazz? the Jazz Prince. To make the nickname stick they chronicled against H.R.H. the following high social misdemeanors...
...have here in Porto Rico such advertising, with this legend: "Fume el tabaco que su tierra produce" (Smoke the tobacco your land produces...
...pieces by the very modernest of the modernists. It has the bevy of nude ladies which Artist Renoir painted in his pensive way and called "Les Baigneuses," and which the Louvre failed to accept as a gift from Artist Renoir's sons. It contains tortured Goyas, and stark El Grecos; bold, eye-shaking Manets, Monets, Picassos, Soutines, Matisses, Van Goghs. It has many a tired ballet dancer by Degas, many an illuminating piece of fruit by Dr. Barnes's favorite of all painters, Paul Cezanne. Also, because of their influence upon French art and the presence of three...
...El Paso, Tex., Joe Parelli and Billy Hallas, wrestlers of unimportance, climbed into a ring, each prepared to force his opponent's clavicles to the mat. Scuffling for a hold, the two grunters permitted their respective skulls to collide with great force. Unconscious - "even for wrestlers," as able Sports Writer McGeehan put it- both fell and lay where they had fallen. The referee was puzzled; noted that Hallas was resting on his back; Parelli on his side; proclaimed the comatose Parelli winner...
...statement: Comparatively "poor men" who have appeared on TIME'S cover: . . . Pope Pius XI, Alfred E. Smith, Paul von Hindenburg, Andrew Volstead, Doctor Ray Lyman Wilbur, Admiral Togo, Rene Fonck, Helen Wills, Joseph Conrad, Carrie Chapman Catt, Roy Chapman Andrews, Eugene O'Neill, John Joseph Pershing, Abd-el-Krim, Ramsay Macdonald. If these be poor men then us ordinary mortals must be paupers...