Word: sancho
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Love (Miss Hasso), his past (Miss Landis) and even a glimmering of conscience eventually intervene. The silky criminal's sidekick (Akim Tamiroff), a Sancho Panza type who prefers the homelier crimes like murder, opposes the renegade and suffers the consequences. The picture tactfully ends as M. Vidocq settles down to full-time virtue...
...Sancho's Dinner. "Saw a book in Adams's, Half Hours With the Best Authors. . . . I would rather make my own selection. Such compilations may be serviceable to those that have access to few books, but to employ them in other cases is too much like Sancho's dinner of state: one gets what another's taste has provided, and but precious little of that. . . . Played a game of whist in Jenks's room this afternoon. . . . Did wrong: won't do it again in term-time. Not that I think card playing sinful...
...sorry steed but in a Packard limousine (he no longer uses a German Mercedes-Benz), the most unquixotic of Spaniards drove through his capital. His Sancho Panzas were red-bereted bodyguards armed with Tommy guns. A clamorous crowd was assembled to cheer his progress through the Puerta del Sol. They gave the Falangist salute. They chanted: "Franco! Franco! Franco!" They screamed: "Franco, yes! Russia...
...have been issued to Commodore Norman C. Gillette, who was acting commander of the Philippine Sea Frontier, his operations officer, Captain Alfred M. Granum, and the port-operations officer, Lieut. Stuart B. Gibson. A milder letter of admonition has gone to the acting port director, Lieut. Commander Jules C. Sancho. (Both Gibson and Sanchp are reserve officers, now getting out of uniform...
When, some 20 years ago, the intellectuals discovered Herriman, Krazy Kat was compared with Don Quixote and with Pan, Ignatz with Sancho Panza and Lucifer, their creator with Anatole France, the German Expressionists, Charles Dickens. Herriman was praised as draftsman, colorist, creator of magical characters, fantastic inventor, and almost as much-but not perhaps enough-as a writer. In many respects his comic commentary resembles that of Joyce in Finnegans Wake, and Joyce might well have saluted the Herriman line: "Just imegin having your 'ectospasm' running around, William and Nilliam, among the unlimitless etha-golla...