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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lope de Vega was acutely conscious of his honor, but when crossed in love revenged himself by writing scurrilous verses about his mistress' family. He wrote 20 pages a day and composed more than 200 full-length comedies in 24 hours each. Getting 50 ducats a play, he was the only professional writer among Spain's great. "When the younger generation came knocking at the door he firmly put his foot against it." Saint Teresa was a great saint but she was also a handsome woman who cried out when she saw her portrait: "God forgive...
Though machine guns rigged to fire through airplane propellers without hitting the spinning blades were among the first air developments of the War, the King asked with his affection-winning candor: "How is that possible?" His question having been answered at length, the 70-year-old Sovereign chuckled contentedly: "Soon I shall know all about these things...
Crash! The motor car of the Chancellor of Austria and Frau Schuschnigg hurtled into a tree near Linz last week. She was instantly killed, her neck broken. He was flung on soft earth, missing a kilometer stone by a finger's length. The portly Schuschnigg nurse rolled over & over, clutching safely to her breast the Chancellor's 9-year-old son Kurt...
...Butler racetrack has sharp turns that King Saxon likes. For nearly a mile, as the crowd expected, King Saxon made the pace. Discovery, running under 132 Ib., caught him as he tired in the stretch, went on to pass Top Row and Only One, won by a comfortable length and a half, at odds of 9-to-10. The prize, $11,675, brought his total winnings...
...last spring Mrs. Moody had packed up her rackets, sailed for England, only to be eliminated in the semi-finals of a minor tournament that made it clear that she had not quite reached her oldtime form; how Helen Jacobs had finally been presented at court in a full-length white satin gown the week Wimbledon started (see cut); and how, finally, the two girls had played through to last week's final. Now, at match point, there seemed nothing left for the crowd to see except how Helen Jacobs would finally accept the victory for which she had waited...