Word: ramone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...after an investigation, declared that evidently many a foreign embassy at Washington has been thus used for smuggling high-priced goods into the U. S.; that a band of international crooks has thus been able to defraud the U. S. Treasury of at least $350,000 in duty. Chilean Ramon Silva, the band's leader, was arrested in India, confessed his crime...
MOVIELAND-Ramon (Gomez de la Serna). Translated from the Spanish by Angel Flores-Macaulay...
Spain has long been familiar with the name Ramon, for Author Serna, who prefers to call himself by his first name, has written more than 70 books and by his industry, versatility, publicity sense, has made himself a household word in his native land. Movleland (Cinelandia) is the first of his books to be translated for U. S. readers...
...life-size skeleton, a gibbet from which hangs the King of Bulgaria. Famed orator, he once made a speech from a trapeze (at the Circo Madrileño), from an elephant (at the Cirque d'Hiver in Paris). Says Critic Waldo Frank: "His true fellow is Marcel Proust. . . . Ramon also weaves the filmy spell of a dissolving world. . . ." Among his more than 70 books: The Black and White Widow, A Doctor of Rare Ingenuity, Torero Caracho, The Chalet of the Roses, The Incongruous...
...Vega Alta, Porto Rico, to Paula Rodriquez and one Ramon Crespo were born one white child, one black child, one light brown child...