Word: make
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Money. The results were startling. His serial number (which was printed on separately and had closed instead of open 45) was the only easily identifiable imperfection. Many counterfeiters soak their money in coffee and crumple it, to make it look older and its discrepancies harder to detect. Hugo's money looked-and felt-so much like the real thing that he always passed it in new, crisp, unwrinkled bills...
...sick, lonely, ghostlike Hugo evaded them. He never passed a bill to a trained cashier. To make his transactions quick, he never bought an article which was not within easy reach of a clerk's hand. For twelve years-one of the longest chases in Secret Service history-he seldom stopped traveling...
...Hugo. He was operating a small photographic shop in Chicago. The Secret Service trailed him for 2½ months, watching for his first suspicious move. Two weeks ago grey-haired, 57-year-old Hugo began buying copper sulphate, dry-cell batteries, and other telltale equipment. He was planning to make "one last batch." He hoped to pass it, build a house and settle down to the joys of being an honest man. Last week Secret Service men raided his photographic shop...
Envenomed by repression, all the sisters fall madly in love with Pepe El Romano, who is engaged to the eldest, Angustias. Night after night the youngest, Adela, slips outside to make love to Pepe in a barn. The ugliest sister, Martirio, informs Bernarda. In an outburst of fury the widow shoots Pepe. Adela hangs herself...
Lest the censor interfere, La Carátula did not make any public announcement of the show. But word seeped through the cafes. The club's membership quickly expanded. When the curtain rose on a simple cardboard backdrop depicting Bernarda Alba's village home, a capacity audience was on hand. In the front row sat the supreme censor himself, bespectacled Garcia Espina, Director General of the Theater and Cinema...