Word: sanchos
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Serrano paled, stuttered: "What's the use of censorship in Spain? How did that book get here?" "In this book," the grim inquisitor continued, "the writer says you made some very rude comments about a friend of ours . . ." Serrano, recovering poise, interrupted: ". . . and of mine." "Our friend, Sancho Davila," said the visitor, "has sent us to see that you either retract and apologize or else. We give you exactly 24 hours to make your decision...
...late George Herriman's Krazy Kat, a gentle, loving soul constantly tormented by her great love, Ignatz Mouse, whose joy in life was to "krease his [Kat's] bean" with a brick. Some partisans saw the Kat and Mouse as latter-day versions of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza; Poet E. E. Cummings found Krazy's faithfulness a vindication of the principle of love...
...sale of 30,000,000 copies (just about it). Biographer Bell, with other critics, observes that this bland and spacious masterpiece is less simple than it seems. More than a satire on medieval romances, which were the soap operas of Cervantes' age, it leads even the earthy Sancho Panza into a subtly dizzying identification of reality and dream...
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...