Word: harlequins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...actuality, 43-year-old Lara takes a rather objective view of women. He divorced his wife a decade ago and has since lived alone in a luxurious rented house in Mexico City's suburb of Chapultepec. He affects Byronic collars, horn rimmed harlequin spectacles, and usually looks fatigued. He is proud of a sumptuous gold hand-carved wrist watch given him last New Year's by President Avila Camacho. Its twin was presented to President Roosevelt...
Oldtime GOPoliticos did not quite know what to make of this new-and nicer-political face as Convention Keynoter Boothe stood before the microphone, slim and cool in a black silk dress, occasionally gesturing gently with a pair of blue-rimmed harlequin spectacles. (Murmured one: "She can even wear glasses!") As keynoter of the Connecticut convention, she clearly stated her concern with the terrible necessity of making democracy work in the middle of the war-to-end-civilization, and the editors who saw that she had ably stated the general concerns of many citizens reprinted here & there her text...