Word: juan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Richard Hudnut, 66, U. S. perfume tycoon, onetime Manhattan druggist; in Juan-les-Pins, France...
Minister of Agriculture, Dr. Juan Fleitas...
Pleasure Man was a ridiculous and stupid play relating apparently the trite story of a backstage Don Juan; actually its purpose was to exploit, not study, homosexualism in its most blatant form. A party was given on the stage by one pervert for his fellows; here Mae West provided her actors with shrill obscenities to shriek. The audience, more prurient even than the playwright, found these interludes funny or exciting; they laughed with weird crescendoes...
...before the hangars, came to a dead stop within a few yards, just as a Paris-London passenger plane thundered down a 500-yard take-off for an unpremeditated, complimentary contrast. "Bravo! bravo!" shouted the crowd, which closed in upon this curiosity. Thirty-year-old, blond, Spanish inventor Juan de la Cierva explained that though he had experimented with airplanes since he was 15, it was the first time he had ever made a long cross country flight in any type of plane. Yes, he had flown from London. No, his plane was, not strictly speaking, a heliocopter. Two small...
Married by Proxy. Juan Romero of Toronto, Canada; and Mrs. Judith Romero of Bahia, Brazil; in Bahia, Brazil. Unable, because of business, to attend his own wedding, Groom Romero sent his brother to Brazil to act as proxy Last week Mrs. Romero arrived in Manhattan on the Southern Cross, met her husband for the first time since their engagement...