Word: joaquin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Bailey Millard, 81, oldtime editor of Cosmopolitan and Munsey's magazine who as literary editor of the San Francisco Examiner first published Edwin Markham's Man With the Hoe (1899), helped introduce the writings of Poet Joaquin Miller; in Los Angeles...
When Nazi planes dropped fire bombs on London last summer, they restored an age-old weapon to use after centuries of neglect. Last week a leading expert on this ancient weapon revealed that the Nazis were clumsy and amateurish incendiarists at best. Tall, dressy Colonel Joaquin Enrique Zanetti, Professor of Chemistry at Columbia University, is the No. 1 U. S. pyrotechnician. Last week he published a concise handbook of arson: Fire from the Air-the ABC of Incendiaries (Columbia University Press...
Uncle Khosrove was a fierce and sorrowful man with the biggest mustache in the San Joaquin Valley. He used to sit in silence by the hour with his heartbroken little friend, a "poor and burning Arab." When the Arab died Khosrove "stood in the parlor with his hat on his head and said, The Arab is dead. He died an orphan in an alien world, six thousand miles from home. He wanted to go home and die. He wanted to see his sons again. He wanted to talk to them again. He wanted to smell them. He wanted to hear...
...recalled a dinner where Novelist Anthony Trollope was host, publicity-wise Poet Joaquin Miller was guest of honor. Twain was "an obliterated guest." Miller was affecting "the picturesque and untamed costume of the wild Sierras ... to the charmed astonishment of conventional London ... He and Trollope talked all the time and both at the same time. . . ." But then, it suddenly seems scarcely important: "It was long ago, long ago-and not even an echo of that turbulence was left in this room. . . . Trollope is dead. . . . Joaquin Miller is white-headed and mute and quiet in his dear mountains...
...either in Texas or in northern Mexico. His "junta" in San Antonio still seemed to be without organization. So feeble were the Almazan efforts to toss the Government out that some haters of President Cardenas in Mexico City hinted they would transfer their allegiance to swart little General Joaquin Amaro, a tough, full-blooded Tarascan Indian who would love to seize power and run Mexico as a dictatorship...