Word: virgil
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Plenty of Prostitutes. Other states are trying to decide whether to cut themselves into the easy money. In Texas, a group of business leaders has contributed $167,000 to promote racing, has the support of such colorful legislators as San Antonio's Virgil Berry, who told a ministerial association that it need not fear that racing would lure prostitutes, since "we already got plenty of prostitutes to meet the demands." A subcommittee of the Iowa legislature has favorably reported a racing bill. In Idaho, where at least five previous legislatures passed a pari-mutuel law only to see Governors...
There is much of the comings and goings of the devoted admirers - Braque. Virgil Thomson, Lytton Strachey, Edith Sitwell, Ezra Pound. Ford Madox Ford and, of course, the young Hemingway -who sat in the atelier at 27 Rue de Fleurus reverently listening to the voice that Alice Toklas can still plainly hear - "deep, full, velvety like a great contralto's." She heard it last in a hospital room shortly before Gertrude was wheeled away for an operation that she did not survive: "By this time Gertrude Stein was in a sad state of indecision and worry. I sat next...
...court, his lawyer described him as "the finest type of Californian." He had been president or chairman of ten companies, a director of 16, a member of the best clubs. But last week San Francisco's backslapping, bearlike Virgil David Dardi, 57, paced nervously in Manhattan's West Street jail, unable to raise $100,000 bail. He had just been sentenced to seven years in prison for his part in one of the most ingeniously bizarre stock swindles in modern history-after the longest criminal trial in U.S. Federal Court history (TIME, Feb. 22). The activities of Dardi...
There are enough villains to populate Dante's Inferno: priests, bishops, mothers, fathers, Falangists, high society, low society, expatriates. Del Castillo is a kind of chatty Virgil who takes his readers on a tour of these monsters, pausing before them for ponderous comments like "Oh, the mysteries of life." It is not that the light touch is beyond Del Castillo. A felicitous phrase occasionally escapes him: they had "the habit of sprinkling theft and graft with holy water." It is just that he cannot refrain from constantly clubbing his characters senseless. In a matter of three pages, he manages...
...Virgil Copeland, president of the Southwest Citizens Association, a group of homeowners in Cascade Heights, finally went to Mayor Allen and suggested closing off two roads that run between the Negro and white areas to prevent encroachments by Negroes and act as a psychological stimulant to white buyers. Allen called in Negro leaders to discuss the possibility of erecting barriers. In return, the city would rezone 250 acres for Negro residential use. Understandably, the Negroes protested...