Word: majorcan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...into good guys and bad?or, as Fielding has it, "givers" and "takers." His friends must all be givers?although as soon as they become his friends, they must learn to take as well, since he loves to shower them with thoughtful gifts: a favorite delicacy, a dozen fine Majorcan handkerchiefs embroidered with their signatures, a monogrammed cigarette lighter. For a grown man, he is wildly sentimental; every reunion is a ceremonial occasion, every farewell a moment of mourning. In between, there are Temple's affectionate letters, punctuated, illustrated and signed with drawings of himself feeling stupid, say, or disgusted...
...Fielding, Raff and Bones travel like triplets. They each carry three dark blue mohair suits, tailored with covered buttons and zippered pockets by Brioni of Rome. Their shirts are all of fine white oxford cloth sewn to Fielding's own design (handmade buttonholes, extra-long French cuffs) by a Majorcan shirtmaker. Their ties are regimental-striped and made in Italy. Their topcoats of blue vicuŅa are cut by English House in Copenhagen. Even their techniques are triplicate...
...Judge Bryan Simpson in Jacksonville to order compliance by 15 motels and restaurants in their city. Going to the key issue of enforce ment, the plaintiffs sought an injunction against the owners' alleged coercers - a troop of white toughs headed by Holsted ("Hoss") Manucy, a convicted moonshiner of Majorcan descent. Manucy, who runs something called the Ancient City Hunting Club, denies membership in the Ku Klux Klan but calls it "a wonderful organization...
World War I made March the richest man in Spain. He indifferently sold food to the Allies, oil to the Germans. From his war profiteering, March went legitimate: he bought huge tracts of Majorcan real estate, invested in the Spanish sugar trust, chemicals, coal and oil. Though he held government monopolies on the manufacture and sale of cigarettes, he nonetheless continued to smuggle raw tobacco to avoid paying import taxes. Once, according to legend, he imported a shipment of right-hand gloves from Czechoslovakia, later bought a shipment of matching left-hand gloves, thus neatly sidestepping government import duties...