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Word: phobics (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1930
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...cigar store over which he prefers to live. Seven warships steamed into the harbor. From Campo Mayo, the 8th Cavalry clattered into town with full equipment to strengthen police reserves. President Hippolito, whose insistence on living in his little cigar store apartment is only one mark of his almost phobic dislike of ostentation, was made to drive to and from the Executive offices, the center of a convoy of eight hooting, speeding motor cars, bristling with riflemen. Second night of the scare, 5,000 Irigoyen followers, who love their elderly President so much that they have given up all party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AMERICA: Alarums & Excursions | 9/8/1930 | See Source »

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