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When Lytton Strachey's Queen Victoria appeared, at the dawn of the debunking '20s, many critics deplored its un-Victorian tone and sardonic bias. Now, time has so mellowed Strachey's lèse-majesté that his biography has been accepted both as a classic study of Victorianism and a human portrait of the great Queen...
...though thy portrait I retouch, Respectable señor, I could not love thee, Chum, so much, Loathed I not Stalin more...
...refers directly to the person, or by allusion to him or the governmental organization of which he forms a part." Penalties run up to three years in jail. A neat clause prohibits the introduction of evidence to prove the offender's statements. Henceforth, Perón and La Señora could expect a good press...
...pick me, Señora?" asked 39-year-old César Bernal Cordovez, a mechanic in the printing plant of El Siglo. The woman insisted that he had appeared in Gaitán's office shortly before the shooting, and had given his name as Roa Sierra (the real Roa had been waiting downstairs to ambush Gait...
...roll call began, and the deputies voted-by turning the electrical indicators on their desks to "Aye" or "No." The lights on the board above the dais flashed the result: 104 to 42 in favor of expulsion. "Let's see who runs to telephone la Señora!" hooted Radical Deputy Emir Mercader...