Word: letts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Teenager Franchise Sagan. whose short, sexy Bonjour Tristesse is an international bestseller. He brought Minou from Brittany, along with 49-year-old Spinster Claude Drouet. who had adopted the child at age of two. Then he brought out a slim limited edition containing ten poems and ten poesy-struck lett&rs. Sample: I picked...
That night, after telephoning trusted army comrades, Lott touched off what Brazilians labeled "the anti-golpe." In the small dark hours, troops in battle kit swarmed into rain-soaked Rio. By morning the city was in Lett's hands. Segments of the navy and air force first declared for Luz, but backed down the next day without firing a shot. Luz himself fled aboard a navy cruiser. The Chamber of Deputies declared Luz "unable to serve" (on the technical ground that he was at sea), duly named as his successor Senate President Nereu Ramos, next in line according...
...Lott spares the reader nothing-every gush of blood from a stricken buffalo's mouth, the way a carcass explodes in the sun "with a great pop and sigh," the mechanical difficulties of skinning an Indian. This is no mere western yarn, and there are no heroics about Lett's hunters: Charley kills because he finds his manhood in killing, Sandy with an uneasy distaste for the waste. Though the dialogue is occasionally as awkward as a bull calf, Lett's uncluttered sense of scene and even-paced storytelling give the book strength and fascination...
Anyone who has lived there, and is honest, knows that the "native" is no less human and peculiar than the average Lett, Finn, Parsee, Mongol and Persian; not to mention American, Briton or Russian...
...campaign, and the duller competitors fled the field. Inspired by the speech given by Sally Rand in a pre-war Smoker battle, titled "What the Stage Door Johnny is Looking for When He Stage-Door-Johnnies a Burlesque Stage Door," two candidates brought strippers Sally Keith and Scar- lett Kelly from the Old Howard to talk to the freshmen...