Word: likenesses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Promptly. Tsaldaris henchmen sneered that of course the foxy "Old Man of Crete" would like to stage a plebiscite while his Government controls the Ministry of. Interior. The Minister of Interior conducts all Greek elections, is supposed to win most of them...
...like football," grins Fernando, "I am of the what-you-call scrubs. It is much exercise...
...charge as his special train passed through that city (TIME, Dec. 23), and who had denounced Calles to U. S, Secretary of State Henry L Stimson as "the greatest exponent of Bolshevism in the Western Hemisphere."* Back in Mexico after a pleasure trip to Europe, General Calles was received like a conquering hero...
...eyes were like clear-shining little blue stones, without fear, without self. He cried softly, for joy, and knelt and thanked them for coming to see him. He had seen but 16 other people in his 37 years there. He kept history in tiny scratches on a stone, beside a meticulous lunar calendar. What could he do for them?-he asked it like a child. Once he had been proud, he said, so he had come here to see God. He had not yet seen God, but now he knew he could not see him until he died...
...warmth. He thanked them for the overcoat-which had to be smuggled to him because the monasteries disapprove of him, the solitary-and in return asked them only one favor: they must never tell anyone his real name. Let them call him "Father Ilya" or anything like that. "Because I have put away the world," he said. "And now I will still know that no one is thinking about me, that I am here all alone...