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Word: mannequin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Born in Madrid in 1891, he still lives there, is one of the sights of the Pombo Café. He carries seven fountain pens filled with red ink. His apartment contains : a street lamp, acquired legally from Madrid's Consolidated Gas Co., a beautiful wax mannequin en deshabille, a life-size skeleton, a gibbet from which hangs the King of Bulgaria. Famed orator, he once made a speech from a trapeze (at the Circo Madrileño), from an elephant (at the Cirque d'Hiver in Paris). Says Critic Waldo Frank: "His true fellow is Marcel Proust. . . . Ramon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Flame-Colored Spectacles | 4/7/1930 | See Source »

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