Word: nez
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...desk in Caracas' well-guarded Miraflores Palace, Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, No. 1 man in Venezuela's military junta, found a fresh copy of Resistencia, the mimeographed bi-weekly of the outlawed Action Democrdtica Party. Resistencia was also on the desks of Marcos Perez Jiménez and Luis Felipe Llovera Páez, the other members of the junta's triumvirate...
Friends say Lara, though he is now married to a 19-year-old chorus girl named Clara Martínez, still worships María. Last week, while he was playing and singing at Mexico City's Capri nightclub, Diego and Frida Rivera entered with María Félix, were ushered to a ringside table. Lara stopped the song he was singing, switched to Palabras de Mujer...
...familiar ones, are run through the camera four or five times in rapid succession, giving the effect of a bad attack of hiccoughs, or a worn record turning in the same groove. To keep the gags rolling, he deploys a whole passel of comics, including Rudy Vallee, with pince-nez and purse-mouthed antics, Hugh Herbert as a butter-fingered doctor, and a couple of yowling hillbilly pinheads (Sterling Holloway and Danny Jackson). None of them is as funny as they were plainly meant...
Into President Truman's offices one day last week went his three-man Council of Economic Advisers, to give him their report on the U.S. economy. Tall, gaunt old Chairman Edwin G. Nourse adjusted his pince-nez, cleared his throat, and informed the President that the U.S. was still in "a healthy state of disinflation." It had not "fallen...
Bustling about in her monkey-fur jacket and top-heavy hats, her pince-nez perched precariously on her thin nose, Impresario "Cissy" Schultz has long been as much a part of Seattle's musical scene as the musicians. For the past 25 years, she has run nearly everything musical in town except the symphony. Last summer when even that finally fell her way, one board member raged: "She always has wanted to get her clutches on the orchestra." Cissy rasped, in a voice sometimes compared to the sound of tearing canvas: "These big-business tycoons are just little boys...