Word: felix
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...fusillade wrought damage. One bullet broke the already deeply scarred jaw of President Ortiz Rubio; another carried away part of the right ear and grazed the scalp of his wife, Senñora Ortiz Rubio; another wounded his niece, Señorita Maria Rosh; a fourth grazed Chauffeur Felix Galvan. Flying glass cut the President's secretary, Col. Hernandez Chazaro, and a friend, one Sostenes Garcia. There were two misses...
...Felix. On his oil field tour Secretary Wilbur saw for himself one of the defects of voluntary agreements. Just outside the Kettleman Hills "shut-in" is operating the Felix well of Petroleum Securities Co. (a Doheny concern), wasting 30 million cubic feet of gas per day. Vainly have the Kettleman operators tried to get the Felix well to reduce production. As Secretary Wilbur was traveling back to Washington, he read news of a terrific explosion at the Petroleum Securities brand-new plant for removing gasoline from "wet gas," a disaster which killed a foreman, destroyed a $500,000 plant...
...close to them as they are still to each other, but he criticized rather than collaborated. Their first play (Esgrima y amor) was given in Seville when Serafin was 16. The tradition of fecundity commonly attached to Spanish dramatists, largely due to the labors of the prodigious Lope Felix de Vega (1562-1635) who wrote 520 plays, has been upheld in a more credible fashion by the Quinteros. Between 1897 and 1912 they wrote more than 80 of their sly, kindly, classically re strained dramas. Among the most popu lar: El Patio, Las Flares, El genio alegre, Malvaloca...
Another volume written by a member of the faculty of the Harvard Law School which has recently appeared is "The Labor Injunction" by Felix Frankfurter, Byrne Professor of Administrative Law in Harvard University, and Nathan Greene of the New York...
...intelligible, and therefore he has avoided elaborate punning, which, though it pleases the groundlings, tends to obscure the meaning. Still there are a few-'Gas main' (Rogas manat), 'Stick-a-lips' (Aste Calypso) are good examples; the rest are puns of a single word like felix and omnibus. In this connection it is interesting to note that the centenary of this mode of public conveyance is marked by the recurrence of the same pun as was employed...