Word: suppers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communists' undiminished self-assurance was perhaps best illustrated by an election-day incident. In the Piazza della Trinita de' Monti, a Communist pollwatcher protested against a reproduction of Leonardo's Last Supper on the walls of the voting room. This picture, he said, was a violation of the rule against electoral propaganda at the polls. The picture was removed...
...Leonardo da Vinci dreamed up tanks in the 16th Century. Wrote the painter of The Last Supper: "These take the place of elephants. . . . One may hold bellows in them to spread terror among the horses of the enemy, and one may put carabiniers in them to break up every company...
...vorcios [The Judge of the Divorce Court, a tale by Cervantes]. According to his satirical wife, this soldier earns nothing, goes to Mass, stands gossiping at the Guadalajara Gate, comes home to dinner at two, spends the afternoon and evening gambling, and returns at midnight, when he has supper, if there is any, makes the sign of the Cross, yawns, and goes to bed, where he tosses composing a sonnet, for he is a poet...
...Among them: Virginia Mayo, Dennis Morgan, Porter Hall. With projects including 15 basketball teams, four youth choirs, dramatic clubs, "creative" clubs, after-supper "sings," summer camps and retreats...
...Whit the projects including 15 basketball teams, for youth choirs, dramatic clubs, "creative" clubs after-supper "sings", summer camps and retreants...