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...prepared a "Yankee invasion" of Argentina. In July 1940 he was arrested for obscenity, for printing an ostensibly mild lampoon of Winston Churchill which was an acrostic: the first letter of each line combined to read "One must be English to be a son of a whore." Editor Osés never stayed long in jail. When impetuous police raided Pampero's office last fall, Acting President Castillo promised that Pampero would be "unmolested, uncontrolled and the publication and distribution uninterrupted." Pampero could perhaps still count on Ramon Castillo's sympathies. But even the efficient Germans...
...What panic? The panic of the bourgeoisie, of course. . . . For years they knew that this would come. . . . They wanted to continue, to hang on to what they had, to their poor little, dirty, decrepit possessions, and survive . . . just sneak through for another generation. . . . The great whore is about to face judgment...
...printed a harmless lampoon of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. But the first letter of each line, joined in descending order, spelled out the less harmless acrostic: Hay que ser inglés para ser hijo de puta (One must be English to be a son of a whore). Within 72 hours Osés was indicted for obscenity and the trial date set. That night, on the fashionable Calle Florida, youthful mem bers of the newly formed, patriotic Action Argentina patrolled the sidewalks, seized and burned copies of El Pampero with shouts of "Viva la Patria! Viva Argentina...
Some 250 years ago, Cockney Nell Gwyn, self-styled "Protestant whore" of King Charles II, unable to write her own name, initialed a 12-shilling receipt "for a pair of rich embroidered garters." Sold at famous Sotheby's in London in 1939, the voucher, without the garters, brought...
...Lady Melbourne. She presented her husband with six children, few of whom were his. William was universally supposed to be the son of Lord Egremont, who, scandal had it, bought Lady Melbourne from Lord Coleraine for ?13,000, of which Lady Melbourne got a cut. ("Your mother is a whore," a young Cambridge friend once shouted at William's brother George...