Word: lisa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Among TIME'S regular readers are three bimbashis (majors in the Egyptian army) whose job is to keep peace in the unpeaceful Sudan. In Wales, believe it or not, lives TIME subscriber Mona Lisa-in Howrah, India, Swami Gangeshananda is a subscriber-and in the far-away Fijis TIME is read each week by President John Quincy Adams...
...story of Anne's disintegration. With a hidden satisfaction she found herself watching the great fortunes crash in the Depression, was ashamed of herself for not feeling sorry. Presently she was no longer ashamed of herself. Running parallel with the story of Anne is the life of Lisa Blessing, a German actress who accepts the U.S. as Anne, in the end, accepts Nazi Germany...
Less well done, Lisa's story complicates the book, blurs its outlines, is tiresome reading compared with the vivid scenes of life & death on the Southampton beachhead. Readers are likely to forget the long talks about politics. They will remember Anne's shock at seeing Marco at her best friend's wedding, the families crowding together in poverty after the suicides and heart failures of the crash. When rich Uncle Bruce Craven went broke, and was charged with having stolen $6,500,000, Marco was the lawyer on the other side. When Uncle Bruce asked his friends...
...Brooklyn. Vigorous, blue-eyed Isaac, his grey, cropped hair covered with a black skullcap, looked them over sharply. Isaac (by a previous wife) had begotten so many children he could hardly keep track of them. Of a total of 16, ten-Arriga, Theodore, Jascha, William, Mischa, Pearl, Lisa, Bessie, Rebecca and Fishel-were in the U.S. Ten grandchildren were either professional musicians or on the way to that calling. Isaac's favorite son is Mischa Mischakoff, who earns about $25,000 a year...
...works of Leonardo da Vinci, sometimes called the finest intelligence the world has ever produced, have had some curious outcroppings. Examples:>A Hollywood portrait of Fanny Brice painted in the pose of the Mona Lisa...