Word: sambas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...father and, jingling his spending money, took off for the jungle. For the next few years he inhaled a lot of folk music, warmed it in his own prodigally creative imagination and exhaled luxuriant clouds of concert music. Some of his work was jungly, some languid as a slow samba. Villa-Lobos became famed as one of the century's most brilliant composers. Last week, a half century after his first jungle excursion but still a restless wanderer, Composer Villa-Lobos turned up as guest conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra, introduced to Manhattan two recent compositions: Symphony...
Life of the Party. In Chicago, Bank Robber Samuel Hochstetler confided to FBI agents that in six weeks he had spent $5,000 of the $31,000 loot for dancing lessons, had already mastered the fox trot, the waltz, the rumba, the mambo, the tango and the samba...
Change Partners. In Albuquerque, Ida Gutierrez Trujillo, mother of eight, filed a $15,000 alienation-of-affections suit against Dance Teacher Elsie Ryan Trujillo, charged that Elsie stole the love of Acquiles Trujillo by her demonstrations of the "hula-hula, hoochy-coochy, mambo and samba...
Life of the Party. In Chicago, Bank Robber Samuel Hochstetler confided to FBI agents that in six weeks he had spent $5,000 of the $31,000 loot for dancing lessons, had already mastered the fox trot, the waltz, the rhumba, the mambo, the tango and the samba...
Notable example: the textile-and-banking Jafets. currently headed by Vargas-Backer Ricardo Jafet. But many a Lebanese in Brazil is simply a backhands pots-and-pans trader. Of such, Brazilians are currently singing a popular samba : Hallah, hallah, hallah, Have pity on Abdallah; Up and down the hills he trots, Carrying his sample...