Word: obispo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...good linguists, have been offered no such simple introduction to other people's tongues. Let's Learn Spanish is designed to teach a basic Spanish. Its pedagogical method is a succession of conversational exchanges between an unmistakable American, Joe Bishop, and a Spanish-speaking friend, Pepe Obispo...
...relations. A Seattle Guild strike heavily sapped circulation and advertising; they had to pay seven months' back wages besides. Fumbling editorial policy cost still more heavily. In order to pay the installments due Sanders, they had to sell two profitmakers, the Portland News-Telegram and the San Luis Obispo Telegram-Tribune...
What was true of New York City was true of the rest of the 6,253 draft districts from Bar Harbor to San Luis Obispo. Told to administer the draft and grant deferments as they saw fit, no two boards saw eye to eye. In Los Angeles, a board placed Cinemactor James Stewart in Class I-B (for limited service) because he was ten pounds underweight. (Jimmy Stewart, weight 145, declared he wanted to serve.) In Chicago, a husky named Len Weiner was drafted although (at 245 Ib.) he was well over Army weight standards...
...ferroconcrete château in Southern California he lives with his young mistress, Virginia Maunciple, a born courtesan with a short upper lip who frequently repairs, for penitence, to the "Lourdes Grotto" which "Uncle Jo" has built for her. Jo's other mainstay is sleek, Levantine Dr. Sigmund Obispo, who keeps the old man hopped up with hormone injections, and searches, meanwhile, for the substance by which, in Marxist John Strachey's optimistic phrase, "death might be indefinitely postponed." The doctor enjoys Jo Stoyte's mistress, old Jo himself does a bit of murder, and finally they...