Word: peruvian
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Lamb testified that he had lost $5 and Garfinkel that he had been relieved of a portable typewriter. Rauh identified a stolen suitcase and a watch in court; Sack recognized a watch and a Peruvian bill worth five soles--30 cents...
...started even before the Incas. Ever since, Peruvians have cherished the 40 million sea birds whose droppings make high-grade fertilizer (guano) for Peruvian farmers. In Inca days, the penalty for molesting the birds was death. Now the protection of the guano birds (cormorants, boobies and pelicans) is the care of the semi-official Compaia Administradora del Guano, set up in 1909 to develop the country's evil-smelling guano deposits...
Punches & Bows. Take Lima, and me, if you please. I came back to Peru twelve years ago after 26 years abroad (I was a kid when I started traveling with my father, who was a Peruvian diplomat and author). First thing that impressed me here was that my countrymen were an emotional lot. Next I noticed that they were given to using high-sounding polysyllables and superlatives. Like Dr. Samuel Johnson, if a limeño "were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales." In fact, Latins in general treat four-syllable words with the careless ease...
...last night's sortie, the thieves took about $100 of cash and valuables from Leverett G and H entries and from one room in Dunster House. In Leverett, they stole a pack of cigarettes and left the $10 lighter next to it; they also cleaned a wallet of a Peruvian five-sol bill--worth 30 cents...
...protocol representative," introduced Afghanistan's Princess Fatima to President Warren G. Harding. In 1926, claiming to be a prominent Hollywood physician, he tried to take charge of Rudolph Valentino's funeral services in New York. Other roles: Lieut. Commander Royale St. Cyr, French air corps; Peruvian ambassador...