Word: leonidases
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Honey-Lou's Greek shipping-millionnaire husband was presently in Porto Hercule with a certain notorious Greek actress, known to the American public for her role in a daring movie. Honey-Lou had no objection to such occasional flings. Leonidas had more than enabled her to savour exotic, decadent, romantic...
Petrakis' John Doe is Leonidas Matsoukas, a beefy and ebullient Hellene who, like the author, is a member of Chicago's Greek-American community, locally known as the Bush. For a fee, Matsoukas counsels mortals on such mundane affairs as impotence, wrestling, enuresis and masturbation. He also speaks...
"Thief! Clown! Animal!" screamed the crowds in Lima's Plaza de Acho, and then, worst of all: "Dancer!" Fumed Bullfight Critic Leonidas Rivera: "There he stood, the most famous matador in Spain, where he just set a record of 111 fights in a single season: a rattled young man...
Resplendent in a freshly pressed uniform, a stocky, scar-faced man wearing brigadier general's rank marched stiffly through the ruined doorway of the Dominican Republic's Congressional Assembly Hall. He was a Dominican national hero, Antonio Imbert Barreras, 44, one of the two surviving assassins of Dictator...
At one point, in 1869, the hapless Dominicans actually sought annexation by the U.S. and won support from President Ulysses S. Grant. Congress refused on the grounds that it would violate the country's sovereignty. In 1916 the U.S. did the next best thing?it sent in the marines...