Word: el
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ambassador Thurston seemed to have tried, so far as correctness allowed, to soften the Dictator's vengeance. But during the days of terror which followed the revolt, all El Salvador was sheltering fugitives. Priests lent their robes. Protestant ministers helped. The embassies of Costa Rica, Peru, Guatemala, Spain (and probably others) granted sanctuary. President Jorge Ubico of Guatemala, though a tyrant himself, allowed fugitives to cross his borders, gave them money to get to Mexico. But the U.S. Embassy closed its doors against them...
...only newspapers appearing were those owned by the Dictator. No one bought them. But the country was flooded with typewritten sheets. When the April 17 issue of TIME arrived in El Salvador, the police expurgated it. At least one copy escaped. Its story of the revolt, translated, circulated underground among thousands who welcomed a true account of the bloodthirsty mystic in the Presidential Palace...
Guatemala's Dictator Jorge Ubico last week had every reason to be nervous about the unrest in neighboring El Salvador (see col. 1). If El Salvador could defy a tyrant, Guatemalans might try the same thing...
Once she spanked one Manuel Cubos Batres, nicknamed "EI Reloj" (The Clock), who was accustomed to demand a minute of silence for any worthy cause. When El Reloj invoked silence against Ubico, La Maciste seized him in a public park, put him over her knees, and shouted, "Now you will cease to be The Clock!" Spanked and shamed, The Clock was silenced forever...
Said La Nación: Stokowski seems to have taken great trouble to satisfy the tastes of a public which has acquired its musical appreciation through the cinema and canned music." Said El Universal: "Through the hall of our great Bellas Artes Theater there reigned ... a contagious chilliness. ..." Said the English-language critic of Novedades: "It seemed the result of a desire to outdo Kostelanetz in misplaced lushness. All that remains now is to transcribe the work [Debussy's Clair de Lune]. . . for the Wurlitzer organ...