Word: hoy
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Julia Misbehaves (M-G-M). During the amatory hurly-burly of World War I, Julia (Greer Garson), a hoy-de-hoyden of London's music halls, marries a landed gent (Walter Pidgeon). They break up before long and, for their child's sake, Julia nobly awards the father 100% custody. The years go by, and Julia, now a middle-aging tramp, gets an invitation to her daughter's posh wedding...
...their hoy-day, seven tutoring schools in and around Harvard Square gleaned an average of $18 from each student in the College, employing mimeographed reviews and high-pressure salesmanship...
...dues and the benefit fund, and never failing to consult his delegate on all important matters, he is no Communist. He voted for Grau and the Autentico Party at the last elections, and he goes to church, though not quite so often as Violeta. Although he reads the Communist Hoy for its detailed waterfront news coverage, Catalino does not yet share with the Communist leaders of his union their hatred for the U.S. He thinks the U.S. is the greatest country in the world and wants to go there-when his union can get him more money, that...
...mark of the new friendship, Havana's Communist Hoy lashed out at democratic Dominican exiles as "reactionary adventurers." Said one such adventurer, who remembered previous pacts between Stalinists and Latin American dictators: "First Nicaragua, then Brazil and now Dominica. Lombardo Toledano and his Communist friends have become the technicians for the salvaging of Latin American tyrannies...
...propaganda machine that includes the newspaper Hoy (Today), schools, sound trucks, cut-rate bookshops, a big radio station, and a troop of "Socialist Boy Scouts" attacks U.S. foreign policy daily. Hoy's Moscow-syllabled appraisal of last week's march past: a demonstration of "workers' opposition to Anglo-American reactionary maneuvers and imperialistic penetration...