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Dates: during 1940-1949
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About the origin of his new name, Mazumbo was more secretive. At first he refused to reveal it. Growled one fellow Parliamentarian: "I won't call him Mazumbo until I know what it means. I might be calling him 'God of white...
...what she promises." Pomaded young executives in the Calle Florida and stolid porteños (citizens of Buenos Aires) sipping tea in the Boston Bar rehashed the question of Eva's position. "I don't mean to be snobbish. I don't mind her humble origin in the least; many of us descended from poor immigrants, but there are other considerations." In the American Club, U.S. businessmen snickered knowingly over the old unprintable gags, as they followed Eva in the daily papers. And befurred society women stopped time & again to tell each other: "And my dear...
...such fast maneuvering, slender, affable Ferd Owen, 58, has become the biggest mule and horse trader in the U.S. His natty suits, hickory cane, and diamond stickpin (shaped like a mule's head) belie his origin as the fifth of nine sons of a poor Missouri farmer. Ferd went to school for only six months. At 15, he went into business for himself as a "road trader," driving all over the Midwest in a covered wagon and swapping animals with farmers along the road. That sharpened his trader's eye; now he can tell an animal...
Most experts here maintained a skeptical attitude. Charles F. Brooks, director of the Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory admitted that he was "stumped" for an explanation. He did assure uneasy housewives, however, that "the phenomenon was definitely not meteorological in origin...
...father laughed a little. He called me over to his side. 'I think you'd better have a try at this book. It's called The Origin of the Species...