Word: liz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Today, dignified, 40, "Colonel Liz" is the first and only woman boss of an Army training center...
...Liz Altemus Whitney, hunt-country rumors indicate, is the reason for the bustup in the Jim Wileys' household...
...dead person of an old pal: "I saw hanging to a tree the impaled corpse of an executed man in his white gown and tall cap adorned with a red cross, his hands bound." Towards the virtuous end of his life Poll finds a new pal-"One Lizárdi . . . a sorry writer in your motherland, known to the public as 'the Mexican Thinker.' " Dying, he entrusts Thinker Lizárdi with his story. The Thinker adds his own account of Poll's pathetic death...
...Mexican Thinker. Joaquín de Lizárdi, the author of the Parrot's adventures, wrote only this novel, and did not even mean to do that. He was a political pamphleteer, and this fictional false-face for his ideas was his "last hope of outwitting the censorship, as well as of making a living by its sales. . . ." Serialized, it was suppressed at the eleventh chapter, published in full after his death...
Born in 1776, Lizárdi picked up and lived by & for the ideas of his century in a country where those ideas brought prison and poverty, finally excommunication. He fought for "freedom of the press, first, last and forever, compulsory free education, religious liberty, liberty of speech and universal franchise, and naturally, almost as a result of these things, justice, sweet justice, for everybody, regardless of race, class, creed or color." He was sometimes taken in by leaders like Santa Ana, but never for long. His wits were "intransigent and not for sale," and though he was afraid...