Word: isabell
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lawrence R. Klepper '40--Isabel Bragman...
Rebecca West was an actress first, a novelist and critic later. She was born Cicily Isabel Fairfield, in County Kerry. She took the name Rebecca West from a part she played in Ibsen's Rosmersholm; her career came from the fact that she preferred her words to someone else...
Terrible-Tempered Tarpon. In Port Isabel, Texas, a 6-ft., 125-lb. tarpon got mad at Fisherman William Bledsoe, jumped out of the water into his boat, busted four of his ribs, knocked him overboard, but was too tired to follow him back...
...dictator's amorous capacity is notable, even in the tropic Caribbean. One of Trujillo's friends is bediamonded, aging, Isabel Mayer. Now in her sixties, Dona Isabel is still famed for her parties and cuisine ("Have some more sea food! It's good for men"). Trujillo was at one of her parties when the infamous massacre of the Haitians occurred in 1937. Rumor has it that Dona Isabel had complained that Haitian peasants, sneaking across the border, were stealing her cattle. The Trujillo soldiery was ordered out. They smashed babies' heads against rocks, ripped pregnant women...
...that fat Francisco Franco's clock is close to striking twelve, on the nose of the news comes Isabel de Palencia's account of the men & women who ran away to fight another day for freedom. Smouldering Freedom, is partly an updating of her own earlier autobiography (I Must Have Liberty), partly a picture of Mexico's "Pilgrim Spain" of Republican exiles...