Word: leon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since the Council can act only by unanimous vote, it was rendered powerless to admit Germany without Brazil. The Spanish representative, Count Quinones de Leon, intimated that he was instructed to make a similar demand on the part of Spain. Before this obstinate blockade the Great Powers halted...
Tuesday. Although no French Ministry had yet been assembled, Senor Quinones de Leon (Spain) and Senhor Mello Franco (Brazil) issued implied threats that as nonpermanent Council members they would vote against admitting Germany to a permanent seat unless their nations were at once permanently seated...
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Despite the flaunting settings of the late scenic designer Leon Nicolaievich Bakst, the audience kept its eyes upon d'Annunzio and off the stage. Mindful of the warnings of their priests, they listened to the Debussy score as little as possible and almost completely ignored the singers, among whom was Madame Ida Rubinstein of Paris. Only when an opportunity to cheer d'Annunzio occurred, did the audience seem in the least at ease. It rose time and again to acclaim...
...clip-clopped into the puddle. He began to rear and caracole as if he were about to suffer transformation into a colt. . . . And a very old man who was watching from the pavement decided that the puddle was in truth a magic puddle - perhaps the same puddle Ponce de Leon was looking for when he saw in dreams the goldern city of Cathay. The old man tottered across the Boston street and thrust his hand into the water...