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Word: jose (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sport. Newsreels have shown to millions of U. S. citizens the lightning-fast Cuban handball game jai alai (pronounced "hy aly"). Unknown to U. S. sport addicts is "Cuba's Babe Ruth," $2,000-a-month Jose Gutierrez, No. 1 handballer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Slow and Easy. . . . | 1/19/1931 | See Source »

Books. Anyone who reads Spanish should read these outstanding Cuban .books: Novelist Cirilo Villaverde's Cecilia Valdes; Poet Jose Maria Heredia's Niagara; Scientist Carlos de la Torre's Historia Natural de Cuba...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Slow and Easy. . . . | 1/19/1931 | See Source »

...joke was now almost back into its shell, the shell almost perfectly patched up. Finishing touches were added by the Guatemalan assembly which named a (4th) president pro tempore, Dr. Jose Maria Reina Andrade. To the press Minister Whitehouse indicated that this arrangement is eminently satisfactory, for a quick election will be held, an unquestionably constitutional (5th) president chosen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GUATEMALA: We Are Not Amused | 1/12/1931 | See Source »

...messages or telephone calls. Their meals are left outside the door of their suite; their bills are paid from Cuba out of their large fortune. Seven years ago a son died. Five years ago they believed he had sent them messages from the spirit world. Soon the father, Jose Cainas Romero, died, promising he too would send messages. These they await...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Taffy | 11/24/1930 | See Source »

...punctually, never once applauded at the wrong time, saved its coughs for intermissions. After the con cert there gathered backstage Chairman Clarence Hungerford Mackay of the Phil harmonic Board of Directors, Banker Otto Hermann Kahn, Soprano Lucrezia Bori, Packer Charles Henry Swift and his wife Soprano Claire Dux, Pianist Jose Iturbi, Violinist Joseph Szigeti. Hovering benignly about was tall, handsome Bruno Zirato, onetime personal representative of Enrico Caruso, engaged this year to fill the same sort of position for Toscanini...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Lonely & Great | 11/24/1930 | See Source »

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