Word: en
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Separated from the Navy in New Orleans in 1946, he started out for China with a friend. They bought motorcycles for the first leg of the journey to San Francisco. En route, they took a side trip to Mexico, liked it so well that they forgot about China and enrolled at Mexico City College to study Spanish. "We were both very annoyed at being in Mexico and not being able to speak Spanish," he explained...
...infected tens of thousands of supposedly hard-core party members. Reported Po Ipo, head of a kind of a Communist Kefauver committee called the Austerity Inspection Committee: "More than 1,670 corrupt persons have been exposed in 27 government agencies." Identified as top grafters: Communications Chief Chang Wen-en, Secret Police Chief Sung Te-kuei, Tientsin's Party Regional Headquarters Chief Chang Tse-shan...
...last year, when Dorothy sang in Sunset Boulevard nightclubs; then London got a look and quickly agreed. But "everyone" told her she still had to prove she could be a success in New York. Last week Singer Dandridge proved it emphatically. The management of Manhattan's La Vie en Rose could not supply tables enough for the customers who crowded...
...only cloudless day i' the recent climes o' Scotia. The skirl o' the pipes, the fearsom' whoops o' the hairy-legged hi'landers and the proud switchin's o' their kilts bode fair to make this a noble screening o' that mirk rebellion o' 1745. But e'en were there ha' sae much blather as the remains of the movie showed, 'twould be wee wonder that the Scotsmen couldna win the war. A man mocht e'en think they wer'nae beaten at Culloden wi' clouds o' Redcoat shot 'n shell, but hae merely talked themselves to death...
...owner. As she has countless times since the classic Blue Angel, Marlene played the same romantic, Weltschmerz role and whispered snatches of French and German songs. Some listeners may have felt cheated because Marlene was limited to a few choruses of La Vie en Rose and four bars of a song in German. "It's a hell of a job to do a dramatic show in half an hour," she explains with a shrug. "There isn't time for singing because you have to worry about character and plot...