Word: iii
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That siren you heard the other noon was a squad car on the way to south Matthews to clear up a traffic jam in the hall caused by James Guinn Zea III describing bull fights as she is run off in Ma-hi-ko. The guy simply needs more room, than that for his descriptive narrating. Incidentally, wonder when he's going to start speaking good old United States again? . . . he and John Vlahos and Carl Fisher and Ed Weilepp...
Died. Grand Duke Boris Vladimirovitch Romanoff, 66, the late Grand Duke Cyril Romanoff's younger brother; in Paris. He was a grandson of Alexander III, next-to-last Czar, and uncle of Britain's beauteous Duchess of Kent. In 1902, gay Duke Boris amused the U.S. public by drinking champagne out of a Chicago chorus girl's slipper...
...Problem III-manpower-and meanwhile the flood of design changes stemming from last spring's battles has receded...
...been underestimated. Next day, on the 28th anniversary of Italy's armistice with Austria in World War I, some 2,000 Neapolitan students chanted "Away with the King!", cheered speakers who denounced the monarchy's ties to Fascism. Still unanswered was the large question: Could Vittorio Emanuele III keep his crown...
Wellington suffered at the hands of the Duke of York, King George III, King George IV, King William IV, Sir Harry Burrard, the Horse Guards, his brilliant brother Richard, Lord Wellesley, Sir Hew Dalrymple, Sir Robert Peel, Lord Melbourne, his friend Lord Castlereagh, the Hindoos, the Portuguese, the Spanish generals. But in this long catalogue of enemies and enmity the most merciless, damaging and unrelenting were the English poets and prose writers, and the spirit of sardonic mockery they expressed, not only against the Duke but against the conservative principles for which he was the ablest warrior...