Word: juan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ernest Gruening, able director of the Department of the Interior's Division of Territories & Island Possessions, thought he had struck a truce with San Juan's Bishop Edwin Vincent Byrne, opened up 15 birth control stations. The Bishop's roars soon drove him to cover. Last week Bishop Byrne was roaring again because both houses of Puerto Rico's Legislature had just passed a bill permitting physicians to tell their patients about birth control. Governor Blanton Winship's predecessor, Catholic Robert H. Gore, began his term by announcing that he trusted in God to control...
Burned at Nice three-and-a-half years ago was the famed $3,900,000 gambling casino Palais de la Mediterranee built by the late railroading Jay Gould's son Frank Jay (TIME, Dec. 4, 1933 et seq.). Burned at Juan-les-Pins last week was another Gould casino, with Frank Jay inside as flames burst from the stage. "Under Gould's personal direction," reported Associated Press, "the crowd was evacuated...
Shipley's Headmistress immediately wrote an expressive epistle to a Nassau dean, mentioning no names but demanding an apology from the wandering Don Juan...
When Kuo Kuo joins him there she cannot help laughing, and that ends their brief stay. They take ship to China; she to aid her country against the Japanese invader, Juan for the ride. Once in Shanghai, Kuo Kuo gets more patriotic, less amorous, by the hour. During the bombardment of Chapei, Shanghai suburb, he rescues two beautiful sisters, Russians but Siamese twins. Since the other fair charmer is never away, he cannot be happy with either, but he has some close calls...
While Kuo Kuo gets more mysterious and unmanageable with her secret plans, Juan solaces himself with Harriet, a travel-book writer. That affair lasts until Harriet's professional duties call her away to the pirates of Bias Bay. Then Juan falls into Kuo Kuo's clutches again, and almost before he knows it he finds himself in a tin-armored tank advancing against the Japanese intrenchments, under heavy but inaccurate fire. How Author Linklater extricates his hero from that parlous position is a caution...