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Word: vermelinho (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...work on them. One evening in downtown Rio, a group called "The Friends of Paraguay" met to hear a Negro actor read the poems of U.S. leftist Langston Hughes. They were so moved that they soon addressed each other, not as "friend," but as "comrade." In the sultry Vermelinho (The Little Red One), a sidewalk cafe, Communist literati flocked again to sip beer. They sneered complacently at "Yankee imperialists" who drank Scotch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Rebound | 5/26/1947 | See Source »

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