Word: forester
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Today, single-handed and in his own right, el gran Mirador controls some 10% of the world's tin output. Many times a millionaire, Simon Patino lives in a gaudy and fantastic palace in Paris. He warms himself at his villa in a forest of pine and mimosa above Nice. His son is married to a Bourbon princess, one of his daughters to a Spanish marquis. In Bolivia the tax on his mines is the country's chief source of revenue. In 1926 Bolivia made him Minister to France, where he bought his own embassy. Patino Mines & Enterprises...
...cottage, carrying a basket of cakes and wine, Little Red Riding Hood passes the Three Little Pigs' establishment. The two inferior pigs, squealing and cavorting as usual while their brother builds an addition to the house, advise Red Riding Hood to use a shortcut through the forest where the Big Bad Wolf spends his time. They accompany her along the shortcut, playing their gay flute and fiddle. When the Wolf , makes his appearance, imperfectly disguised as Goldilocks, the piglets behave as might be expected. They run home and hide under the bed. Red Riding Hood escapes...
...Rangers who won the Stanley Cup last year. The Toronto Maple Leafs, by far the ablest team in the National League judged by their season's record, were put out fortnight ago in a semi-final against the Detroit Red Wings, owned by Broker James Norris of Lake Forest, Ill. Opponents of the Red Wings in last week's three-out-of-five series for the Cup were the Chicago Black Hawks, owned by Mr. Norris' neighbor, Major Frederic McLaughlin...
...slums to be whirled helplessly to the base of the two peaks, where they dropped on limp wings. Children hung their snow sleds beside the door and squatted down to a Hokkaido (Japan's New England) supper of fish, beans and rice. In the Bay a forest of masts swayed wildly. But wind and cold are nothing new to the citizens of Hakodate, Japan's ninth biggest city and enterprising port of a northern island that is nearly the climatic counterpart of the Canadian Northwest...
...Cochet singles-7-9, 6-1, 4-6, 6-3. 6-3 for Tilden. Critics considered it the best professional tennis ever played in the U. S., found Tilden and Cochet as evenly matched as they were when they played against each other in the National Singles at Forest Hills in 1926. Cochet, still trying to accustom himself to artificial lights and the green canvas court which is part of the baggage of a Tilden tennis tour, said he expected to turn the tables, failed to do so in Boston where Tilden & Vines made another clean sweep. Itinerary...