Word: el
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hops Monty took a fling at an old U.S. pastime. "Your people have been showing me a new game with dice. They call it shooting craps. It's been a lot of fun. We've been shooting craps for matches in the air." Added the hero of El Alamein: "I've lost all my paper matches...
...interesting project was the 38 miniatures of George Washington and His Times, which he finished in 1935. The set was presented to President Roosevelt by the Polish Government, and today hangs in Hyde Park. But the assignment Szyk enjoyed most was in 1924, when he was hired to paint El Glaoui, the Pasha of Marrakesh, Morocco. Sighs Szyk: "There were gazelles in the garden and dances of the bosom every night...
...William Grant Still's Afro-American Symphony a little hard to take. So did some in the audience at Hollywood Bowl last week. But they were impressed by the conservative and competent way he handled Weber's tried & true overture to Oberon, Aaron Copland's El Salon Mexico...
Jerusalem's Dome of the Rock, a mosaic-walled mosque in a corner of the Old City, is Islam's third holiest shrine. From the Rock, Mohamed, led by the Angel Gabriel, ascended on el-Buraq, his eagle-winged mare with the human face, to visit the seven heavens of Islam. (Mohamed's footprint, judged by Mark Twain to be about size 18, is still pointed out to true believers; in the 12th Century it was shown as the footprint of Christ.) Here the muezzin's wail is still heard from the upper air, calling...
Declension. In Chicago, the Brookfield Zoo's giant anaconda, "El Diablo," gave birth to 21 baby anacondas, was hastily renamed "La Diabla...