Word: twice
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Twice last week General Queipo de Llano was in the news. From Valencia came word that his sister Rosario, a Leftist hostage since immediately after the beginning of the war, had finally been released from jail in an exchange of prisoners. From his headquarters at Seville came a story of an attempt to kidnap the radio general himself. Weeks ago General Queipo de Llano set out on an inspection trip of the lines north of Córdoba. Entranced by his ceaseless flow of conversation, staff officers did not notice until almost too late that the chauffeur...
...meet with a committee of editors (under Stuart Perry of the Adrian, Mich. Telegram) and a committee of publishers (under Paul Bellamy of the Cleveland Plain Dealer) to "agree upon standards of publicity of judicial proceedings and methods of obtaining an observance of them. . . ." The 18 members met twice, communicated often. Groundwork for the final report, considered at the A. B. A. convention at Kansas City this week, was a report which the A. B. A.'s Special Committee on Publicity in Criminal Trials prepared (but never released) as a result of political complications ensuing from the Hauptmann trial...
...years ago Jock Whitney organized the Greentree polo team around his 10-goal neighbor, Thomas Hitchcock Jr., proceeded to win the U. S. Open Championship twice. Although Sonny learned polo not only from Mrs. Thomas Hitchcock Sr. but from his own polo-pioneering father (U. S. Internationalist 1909-11-13), his playing has developed more slowly. This year, however, when Cousin Jock determined that Greentree should be the first team to win three Open Championships in a row, Sonny gave him cause for alarm. Sonny, with his Old Westbury team built around the other current U. S. 10-goaler, Stewart...
...editorial writer of the Baltimore Sun, co-author of The Sunpapers of Baltimore. Though Author Johnson says he is dull of ear and asbestos of soul so far as "the fire of genius that burned in the young Mozart'' is concerned, he is an earnest flautist, plays twice a month in a Baltimore amateur ensemble called "The Faith, Hope & Charity Chamber Music Club...
Gerald Johnson's chamber music group meets twice a month in his Baltimore suburban home, was originally planned as an adjunct to the musical education of the Johnson children but now includes more grown-ups-Mrs. Johnson, a physician, a dentist, a kindergarten teacher, a psychoanalyst, three little girls and a female violinist (Charity) who conducts. Comparatively rich in amateur groups, Baltimore also has a "Sunday Night Group" organized by Editor Hamilton Owens of the Sun, an oboeist, which includes his wife (violin), Biologist Dr. Raymond Pearl of Johns Hopkins, his daughter, Mrs, Gardner Jencks, her husband...