Word: juan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nationals that he obtained last March a loan of $1,000,000 from the Manhattan firms of J. & W. Seligman & Co., and the Guaranty Trust Co. Therefore, last week it was only necessary for Presidential Representative Stimson to be firm with the Liberal faction of Nicaragua, whose President, Dr. Juan B. Sacasa, has been recognized as President of Nicaragua by the Mexican Government and has been declared to be the rightful holder of this office by the Chairman of the U. S. Senate's Foreign Relations Committee, Senator William E. Borah null...
...deserting the bull fights for the inexpensive but amusing movies. The national hero is transformed from the person of the most efficient bull artist to that of the reigning screen star, be it man, woman, child or horse. For those who dance must pay the piper, quoth the penurious Juan, and bathing beauties cost less than bulls...
...John Grays' works W. A. Burden '27, has loaned to the exhibition a splendid group of Gayana. There are copies of "Achilles, an Opera". "The Distressed Wife", and "Two Epistles", as well as a number of Byron's first editions loaned by F.V. Field '27, and which include "Don Juan", "Manfred", and "Maseppa". "The Prisoner of Chillon" and a very interesting Boston edition of "The Giaour", have been added by John Potter '30, and J.S.B. Archer '30, respectively...
...recently announced terms under which 3,000 rifles have been sold by the U. S. War Department for $6 each to the Conservative Nicaraguan Government of President Adolfo Diaz (recognized by the U.S.). The contract is so drawn that even if the Liberal Nicaraguan Government of President Juan Sacasa (recognized by Mexico) should be returned at the next Nicaraguan election it will have to finance payment for these arms (now being used to fight it by the Conservatives...
Long Pants (Harry Langdon). The Boy (Harry Langdon) consumes such inflaming literature as "Don Juan," "Great Lovers of History," "When His Love Grew Cold." Therefore, when his father provides him his first pair of long trousers, the adolescent breaks out in a romantic rash with tragic freckles. He mounts his trusty, high-spirited bicycle, dashes out to the park, there meets with a grande dame reposing in a Rolls-Royce while her chauffeur mends a flat tire. The Boy, sore smitten, circles the auto, displaying a repertoire of bicyclical virtuosity rivaled only by his vaulting hopes. Amused, the lady kisses...