Word: iii
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...went for a Saturday evening's entertainment. Glamorous Ernie Hyne was reported to have been seen fending off three girls at one time in one corner while the greatest act of all was put on by one Paul Giamis who assumed the dramatic pseudonym of Beauregard J. Lee III for the evening. His suaveness and natural ability were so certain that he finally had five of the more astute people there convinced of his pure Southern ancestry and has been taking all drawling calls for Mid'n Lee ever since. All the credit for the success must go to conscientious...
Said Stanza III: Last week El Gitano, held in the fortress of Santiago Tlaltelolco, had implicated important people in Loaiza's murder, was the hero...
...Belgian crisis was not merely Belgian. The problems of the little kingdom, whose King Leopold III is a German prisoner, seemed like a desperate distillation of the problems of much of liberated Europe. Behind these problems lay hunger (the physical absence of sufficient food), cold (the physical absence of fuel in one of Europe's bitterest winters), the war-induced collapse of the economic system (which was unable to produce vitally needed consumers' goods or to give jobs to people who vitally needed them...
...Three former Regents: Prince Cyril, brother of the late Tsar Boris III and uncle of the boy King Simeon II; ex-Premier Professor Bogdan Filoff, Bulgarian expansionist, who preferred making history to teaching it; Lieut. General Nikola Mikhoff, who had held the mistaken belief that the German Army was invincible...
...smooth-surfaced canvases were standard O'Keeffe: quasi-mystical, highly polished designs inspired by New Mexican landscapes and still lifes. There was the bald roll and wrinkle of creviced hills, Black Place III, suggesting the convolutions of a human brain. There was the shock of a swatch of blue sky seen through the gape of sun-baked bones, Pelvis III. There also were canvases which seemed to represent nothing whatsoever in nature: skillfully colored symbolic forms that were sure to stir the imaginations of most gallerygoers...