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Word: lola (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Filth. Through the super-secret hocus-pocus common to all police states, an old friend put me in touch with a member of the Paraguayan underground, an attractive girl of about 28. "Lola" (that is not her name) is a member of the Movimiento Revoludonario Febrerista, a militant, left-wing organization corresponding to Peru's APRA...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PARAGUAY: Prisoners | 8/30/1948 | See Source »

Only a few days before, President-elect Gonzalez had suavely assured newsmen that not more than a few political prisoners were still behind bars. Lola showed me documents proving that more than 1,200 still rot in the filth of Paraguay's jails. If I wanted to see for myself, Lola said, she could arrange to slip me into the Asuncion jail as a visitor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PARAGUAY: Prisoners | 8/30/1948 | See Source »

Petard. In lola, Kans., Painter Arthur L. Barnes put the finishing touches on a "No Parking" sign, later paid a $3 fine for ignoring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 31, 1948 | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

Black Bart (Universal-International). Yvonne de Carlo (in glowing Technicolor) as Lola Montez; Dan Duryea and Jeffrey Lynn as rival swains and bandits. There is little illusion of quality about this western, and too little of the deadpan kidding that has made some other De Carlo pictures a pleasure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, Also Showing Mar. 22, 1948 | 3/22/1948 | See Source »

Leopold was a man of many amours, and he took them the way a child eats candy. But his infatuation for Cléo caused as big a buzz as Ludwig of Bavaria's fling with Lola Montez. Proletarians denounced it in dingy bistros, and bourgeois canvassed it dreamily on the conjugal couch. Cléo became almost as scandalous as conditions in the Congo rubber jungles, which Leopold had also bequeathed his country. The king's enemies, of whom he had many, called him "Cléopold." L'affaire Cléo enlivened the otherwise boring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Remembrance of Things Past | 1/6/1947 | See Source »

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