Word: ma
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Papal Legate Teodoro Lelli, Bishop of Treviso, accompanied the Lord Bishop of Ostia on a mission to the court of Louis XI of France. There the Legate was sketched by the court artist, Maître Jean Foucquet, who etched his subject's fleshy, self-assured features in silverpoint on a small piece of cream-colored paper. Last week, at Christie, Manson & Woods's famed London salesrooms ("Christie's''), this little picture was auctioned off to Lord Duveen of Millbank, world's No. 1 art agent...
...melodramatic year 1933, spindly Alvin Karpis joined forces in St. Paul with Kate ("Ma") Barker and her sons Fred and Arthur. In little more than a year the Karpis-Barker gang became the nation's most formidable criminal outfit, made nearly $500,000 by robbing banks, kidnapping such folk as St. Paul's Brewer William Hamm and Banker Edward George Bremer. Then police and G-Men began weeding the gang out. "Ma" and Fred Barker and another mobster died un der Federal guns. Six other Barker-Karpis hoodlums and accomplices were put behind bars, seven more were under...
...Nijinsky and the old Diaghilev company helped to inspire enthusiasm. The old Diaghilev ballets have had the greatest success. The youthful company has worked hard to interpret them faithfully, boasts several leading dancers who have conspicuous talent. From the Diaghilev company came Léonide Massine, the galvanic maître de ballet whose dancing is marvelously fleet and polished. Another Diaghilev dancer is Alexandra Danilova, a piquant ballerina trained in Petrograd's Theatre Street. Beau Brummel of the company is black-haired David Lichine, whose leaps have excited the admiration of Harvard track stars...
...Hsinking and Tokyo. At latest reports the Soviet-Mongol forces outnumbered the Japanese-Manchus at least two-to-one and Japanese war planes were about to rush belatedly to the rescue clear across the mountains from Tsitsihar, the war base established by Japanese after they defeated famed General Ma and set up the Manchu Emperor (TIME, Nov. 16, 1931 et seq.). Relations Ruptured- In jittery fear lest Eastern Asia be plunged into a great war by the fighting begun last week, the more prosperous subjects of His Imperial Majesty Kang Te hastily fled from Manchukuo this week to China until...
...Haru's father went there, and returned with an alarm clock, a fountain pen, and a traveling bag for his wife. Noboru went there, to try to reclaim O Haru's sister, but she had got out of the way of saying "Ma-a!" and "O-i!" so they did not have much to talk about. Noboru went home, like a sensible fellow, and married O Haru. who said things he could understand. Eventually everything came out all right; they got electric light but kept the old customs...