Word: el
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...meal" was the Pan American Union's decision last week to table the request of diplomatically isolated Argentina for a conference under the inter-American system of consultation. Only Argentina voted in favor. El Salvador (whose Government was unrecognized except by Honduras and Nicaragua) was not consulted. All the other hemisphere nations agreed, officially, that the Argentine request should be ignored...
...almost exclusively among celebrities. Almost any night she might be found surrounded by one or all of her Stork Club gang: talking over his experiences in Spain with Ernest Hemingway or their experiences anywhere with Westbrook Pegler, Peter Arno, Damon Runyon, Steve Hannegan, John O'Hara; dancing at El Morocco with Dan Topping and Shipwreck Kelly; dashing out to the country to help Deems Taylor compose a new operetta. Between times there were play or ballet or opera openings with the William Rhinelander Stewarts, the Orson Munns, Prince Serge Obolensky, the Averell Harrimans, Sonny Whitney. Once a weekend...
Next day Ed Stettinius hired a hall (the D.A.R.'s Constitution Hall) for $478.20, the bill to be paid by himself and team. Some 2,500 employes-clerks, decoders, secretaries and porters-heard the U.S. Marine Band toot out Colonel Bogey March and El Capitan and then watched as Ed Stettinius, with unflagging enthusiasm, presented his new assistants...
...year in which the outcome-the question of who would win and who would lose-still dangled precariously in the balance. The trend of the war had been reversed in 1942 at Stalingrad and El Alamein. By early 1944 the U.S. was almost fully armed-thanks mainly to the Man of 1943, General George Catlett Marshall...
...Although the U.S. is not the most popular nation in Costa Rica (ranking below Mexico, Argentina, Spain, France, El Salvador), Costa Rican girls fancy Americans as husbands: half of those questioned (56) would like to marry Americans. One reason: "Americans are more considerate, faithful and helpful, and less jealous." Costa Rican men never dry dishes...