Word: rosee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...They Do?" As he sat down his aide leaned forward and whispered. The Senator rose again and said, "I meant to say we have been received by the King of Greece, not Sweden. Sweden does not have a King...
Amid cheers and cries of "Hear! Hear!" a portly and cherubic figure rose from the opposition benches. His eyes were damp. "I most humbly express my thanks to the Prime Minister," rumbled 75-year-old Winston Churchill, "for the most kindly gesture which he has made to me. It brings home to me how far more great are all those sentiments which unite us than are the"-Churchill smiled and coughed -"still quite important matters which are so often the occasion of debate in this house and out of doors." As Churchill took his seat again, laughter and more cheers...
...takes for a brilliant political career. When a vacancy in the federal Senate occurred in the Argentine province of Catamarca three years ago, Deputy Saadi, the son of Syrian immigrants, was elected to the job by his Peronista colleagues in the provincial legislature. In Buenos Aires, Senator Saadi rose rapidly -to chairman of an important committee, then to floor leader of the Peronista majority. But one day he made a little mistake; during a closed session of the Senate he arose to object to the presence of "an outsider." The outsider happened...
Some weeks ago, Bolivian Senator Tomás Manuel Elio, who by a strange coincidence is also legal adviser for the Patiño interests, introduced an amendment to the divorce law. When it came up for discussion last week, the President of Bolivia's Chamber of Deputies rose gravely to read a cable from Paris asking that the amendment be pigeonholed. "I do not ask you, Mr. President, to take any action contrary to law," the cable read, "but presently the only divorce suit ... at stake is the one brought against me ..." It was signed Cristina de Borb...
...Bill," "Bojangles") Robinson, 71, longtime master of old-school (non-acrobatic) tap dancers; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan. Grandson of a slave, Robinson ran away from his home-town Richmond at eight, shined shoes, worked as stableboy and waiter, danced for nickels & dimes in beer joints before he rose to millionaire stardom (as high as $8,000 a week) in vaudeville, movies (The Little Colonel, The Littlest Rebel with Moppet Shirley Temple) and musicomedies (The Hot Mikado). A natural dancer who never took a lesson, he gave lessons to Eleanor Powell and Ruby Keeler, originated the widely imitated stair...