Word: morocco
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Born. To Sono Osato Elmaleh, 27, sprightly, slant-eyed, Japanese-Irish-American ballerina (One Touch of Venus, On the Town), and Victor Elmaleh, 28, French Morocco-born architectural designer: their first child, a son; in Manhattan. Name: Niko. Weight...
Daughter of a notary in southern France, Marga escaped from the tiresome tranquillity of middle-class life by marrying (1911) a rich Basque count much older than herself. Patient Pierre d'Andurain paced her docilely as she darted through Spain, Morocco, Algeria and South America. In 1923, the pair settled in Palmyra, Syria, where Queen Zenobia once ruled the desert caravan routes. There the count owned the Hotel Queen Zenobia, a mud-walled but lavishly furnished caravansary, catering to visiting oilmen, desert chieftains and casual Syrian commercial travelers. Within a few years Marga had turned this oasis into...
...last months of his '305, Milton Arthur Caniff is a handsomely hefty (195 lbs.), blue-eyed, relaxed man with an indoor look and a sociable nature. He is almost never seen in the Stork Club or at El Morocco, although many a G.I. or plain reader might naturally assume that Terry's generally sophisticated dialogue was clutched from some such glamor-scented...
Cried Pretender Don Juan: "I am not prepared to be treated by General Franco as if I were the Sultan of Morocco...
Retreat to Morocco. Young Barea got a job as one of 60 unsalaried "apprentices" in a great foreign bank, the Credit Etranger (250,000,000 francs capital). At the end of the year he was one of three apprentices taken on as paid employes. The rest were fired and new boys who would work for nothing took their places. The bank's business, he soon decided, was to control or ruin other businesses. After a few years he exchanged one hopelessness for another and took service in the army in Morocco, building a road into the hostile territory...