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...beyond proving, without any strain, that he is one of the most likable entertainers in the business. Miss Grayson, prettier and more animated than ever, warbles an aria from Lakmé like an eisteddfod of thrushes, and does even better by Mozart's Lá Ci Darem la Mano, in which she is supported by Sinatra. For good measure young Billy Roy plays the piano impressively, and Peter Lawford hangs around amiably as the shy son of an English duke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Apr. 7, 1947 | 4/7/1947 | See Source »

...sharp whoosh. This bull did not charge at all, the cabron, and this day the crowd did not like Lorenzo Garza but much preferred Armillita, who worked in the decadent style of the imitators of Belmonte and (Lorenzo Garza thought) was not of sufficient worth to exhibit himself mano a mano with El Magnifico in the Plaza de Toros in Mexico City. Lorenzo Garza spat in the sand. Then he drew his sword from underneath the muleta, profiled and lunged at the bull...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: FOR WHOM THE BULL TOILS | 3/17/1941 | See Source »

...protection of his cryptic shorthand when he confided his amours to his diary, Pepys added further screens by making up a pidgin language of French, Spanish and Latin, with toy words and a freakish kind of lustful baby talk. "She would not suffer that je should poner my mano above ses jupes which je endeavoured," he wrote of one modest soul. But although Librarian Turner transcribed such passages, Pepys's secrets are still reasonably safe 270 years after the night Mrs. Pepys caught him with the charming Deb Willet. Talking things over with publishers and college authorities, Librarian Turner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pepys's Friend | 10/3/1938 | See Source »

Beethoven, Variations on a theme by Mozart. "La Ci Darem La Mano" (arranged for string orchestra by Michael Press...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Symphony Concert Tonight | 1/14/1926 | See Source »

...mano derecha es mas fina?

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dempsey-Firpo Notes | 9/17/1923 | See Source »

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