Word: nez
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...split wide open and disgorged a little volcano. A lively row had sprung up between two powerful newspapers, El Universal and Novedades, over whether El Fakir's crucifixion was sacrilege. Universal, which sponsored El Fakir's show, finally overcame objections by getting from Archbishop Luis Martínez a statement: "I have nothing to say about this spectacle . . . because it is nothing that has to do with religion." Religious or not, many awed Mexicans gave El Fakir medals of the Virgin of Guadalupe, asked him to pray for them...
...Mexico ambitious Diego Martínez-Barrio, last president of Spain's Republican Cortes, presided over a meeting of four factions: Izquierda Republicana (Republican Left), Unión Republicana, Catalána Esquerra (Catalan Left), Partido Nacionalista Basco (Basque Nationalists). Main agreement: that the last president of the Republican Cortes will decide when to re-establish the Republican Government in Spain. But absent from the meeting were the followers of Juan Negrín, Socialist last Premier of Republican Spain, now in England, as well as powerful other Socialist and Communist groups...
...Bernie Baruch is still eminently fit to serve his country. He holds his 6-ft.-3½-in. frame so erect that he always seems to tower. He weighs only about 20 lb. more than his best fighting weight (175). His clear blue eyes twinkle behind his pince-nez; his lean, patrician face is less wrinkled than the faces of many men 20 years younger; he has a healthy thatch of snow-white hair...
...tools of his trade, he directed everything from serials to spectacles. He shot the supercolossal Marie Antoinette in 67 days, The Thin Man in 17. He called Greta Garbo "kid," joined every organization in sight, including the Elks, the I.W.W., the Masons, the Socialist Party, the Navajo and Nez Perce tribes...
...Xenophon's 10,000 Greeks retreated through hostile territory for 1,500 miles from the Tigris, but they were not chased; Charles X of Sweden retreated 1,000 miles from Yaroslav to Warsaw, sometimes chased; Napoleon was haphazardly chased 500 miles from Moscow; Chief Joseph and 600 Nez Percé Indians were chased by the U.S. Army 1,300 miles from the Wallowa Valley in Oregon to the Canadian border, but 600 Indians could scarcely be called an army...