Word: lix
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Adolphe Félix Sylvestre Ebou#233;, Governor General of French Equatorial Africa and France's most distinguished Negro, talked proudly in Cairo last week about the future of the black man in his native continent. At last February's trail-blazing French Empire conference in Brazzaville, he had served as honorary chairman, helped promote a policy of "Africa for the Africans." Now, within the French Empire, the Governor General said optimistically, his people stood on the threshold of full citizenship, even of social and economic equality with whites...
Rewald had access to a vast amount of Seuratiana and to the painter's lifelong friend, the aged and acute French art critic, Félix Fénéon, from whom he has not heard since the fall of France. The result is an unexpectedly intimate portrait of an unusually reserved man, and a lucid exposition of his "scientific" methods of painting...
Last week, from Guayaquil jail, Captain Félix Guerrero announced his engagement to Señorita Julia Esther Briones. Said Julia: "Our engagement ring is of steel, instead of gold, as a symbol of the durability of our love...
...afternoon in June 1939, slim young Julia Esther Briones walked into a swank Guayaquil barbershop, pumped five bullets into her rich, reclining, about-to-be-shaved lover, Ramón Hidalgo R. To jail went Julia with a nine-year sentence. In November 1940, Army Captain Félix Guerrero Zarate blasted three bullets into the beautiful young body of his just-divorced wife, María Magdalena Mejía. To jail went Félix with an eight-year sentence...
...last week, at the peak of his career, handsome, laconic, 52-year-old José Félix Estigarribia, soldier, diplomat, statesman, boarded a plane with his wife in Asuncion for a holiday at his country home on Lake Ypacaray. Somewhere between Altos and San Bernardino, 65 miles east of the capital, the pilot ran into fog and crashed...