Word: rios
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...madness. Diaghilev was so jealous that he refused to let the dancer have any friends outside his own inner circle. Wlu'le others were paid prodigious salaries, Nijinsky was given only enough to take care of his mother in St. Petersburg. When the Ballet started for Rio de Janeiro, Diaghilev's fear of the sea kept him in Europe. Nijinsky had never seemed to notice the Hungarian girl who had attached herself to the troupe, but one day on shipboard he sent an emissary to her who said: "Romola Carlovna, as Nijinsky cannot speak to you himself...
...retainers, who prepared for the ordeal by getting as drunk as possible. But of the tons of treasure that went back to Spain, all was melted up or disappeared, and for four centuries no concrete trace of the Coclés came to light. About 30 years ago the Rio Grande de Coclé shifted its course, cut through an ancient Coclé burial ground. Five years ago some natives, poling up the river when the water was unusually low, spied something shining on the bank. They went ashore, scooped up enough shining things to buy many jars of heady...
Plans for the presentation of "Rio Grande" by Charles F. Townsend at Leverett House on Tuesday, March 20, are well under way, and the cast of characters has been chosen. Chaste maidens, bad villains, and languishing beauties will be on the stage in this drama which tells of army life in New Mexico in the early eighties. Nixon deTarnowsky '35, a veteran of a similar play given last year, will take the part of a love-lorn maiden, Retta; the villain will be acted by Milton I. Byer '35, who is known as a very wicked man from former roles...
Just back from Rio with the pact in his pocket, Mr. Clark last week was made acting head of the Council in place of Raymond Stevens, who was granted a leave of absence "until such time as his health is restored...
...over the world last week men, women & children were talking. Though the subjects of their conversation were limited, rio one interpreter could have been quite sure what they were talking about; for in order to understand everything that was said, such an interpreter would have to know about 1.500 different languages, not counting dialects. In Urdu, Kiswahili, Catalan, Manchu, many another mutually outlandish lingo they hissed, jabbered, squeaked to each other. Some (though few of them knew it) were even talking Basic English...