Word: townes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...news spread to the remotest corners of Europe, swarms of gypsies got into their cars and trailers and headed for the town of Lendinara in the Po valley. There, in the center of the Piazza San Francesco, a great tent stood, and around it the gypsies gathered to begin the vigil. Inside the tent, surrounded by seven tall candles, Queen Nella ("Mimi") Rossetto, sovereign of one of the largest (estimated number: 10,000) and richest gypsy tribes in Europe, lay on a straw mat dying...
...doctors' dismay, she swilled slivovitz, puffed on her Tyrolean pipe and declared that she had never felt better. But last week her condition worsened, and the tribal regency council insisted on moving her to the tent in the town square. "A gypsy queen," they said, "must die in her own tent on a mat of straw...
...played for the Braves, was moved to protest: "Any time O'Connell hits two home runs in one game, something's wrong. In his three and a half years here, with normal foul lines of 320 ft., he hit exactly NONE." Then the Chicago Cubs came to town. They demolished the Dodgers, 15-2, and hit four homers to the Dodgers' two. Three of the Cub homers were hit over the friendly fence by Rightfielder Lee Walls, who took all last season...
...Vienna before World War I, the maddest celebrity in town was Oskar Kokoschka. His morbid plays dramatizing strife between the sexes set off bitter café debates; his portraits turning the light on the psychological "inner life" of his subjects outraged complacent burghers. Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austrian throne (whose assassination at Sarajevo in 1914 triggered World War I), gave it as his opinion that "this fellow's bones ought to be broken in his body." After the war, which dealt Kokoschka a head wound and a bayoneting, the artist moved to the front rank of avant...
Wilkins feels that "a whole complex of factors" ties the Negro to his original mid-town settlement. "Young couples are often disillusioned upon learning of the extreme difficulty in having a new home financed." He cited instances in which banks have refused to deal with Negro clients...