Word: somes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Packed with big names, big numbers, in-laws, cousins and old friends, Tory M.P. sometimes reads like the society page of a small-town newspaper conscientiously reporting a family reunion. This has the effect of making wealthy Tories appear less menacing than the authors intended. Also weakening the picture is...
While it was obvious that the long-awaited showdown between militarists as represented by the generals and Falangists (Fascists), headed by Señor Serraño, was not far off, it was less obvious which side Generalissimo Franco, umpire of the showdown, would favor. It would suit the purposes...
Passing over the border from France into Spain one afternoon last week was a motorcade of five armored motor trucks, a motorcycle police escort, a car of armed police inspectors. The trucks carried $40,000,000 in gold bullion, and its passing from French to Spanish hands ended a long...
He found out that maids in the houses of Madrid noblemen get $4.50 a month, adding-either as a slur on aristocrats or a tribute to maids-that you can tell the maids from the aristocrats on the street because the maids are not allowed to wear hats. Gas is...
Mesdames Goddard, Camp, Lycan and Stockwell then turn about and caution their students against slang, thereby making it pretty clear that they do not know 1939 slang from third base. American English gives students some good instruction on how to write different types of prose, address letters and judge a...