Word: que
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...with sherry. In summer, the team of Pons & Kostelanetz earns $5,500 a night. The 300,000 people they have attracted to Chicago's Grant Park of a summer evening is the biggest crowd ever assembled to hear good music. Says Lily Pons: "On m'a dit que only dictators peuvent get crowds like that." And, underlining Kosty's part in the partnership, she has trilled: "A woman who is not happy cannot sing nice...
Montreal, Que...
...ALEX. EDMISON Alderman, City of Montreal Montreal, Que...
Under the heading "Dithyrambic With Key" El Pampero had 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...
...Dining Car. In this same car, in this same spot, in the bleak November dawn of another Friday 22 years ago tough old Marshal Foch received the German delegation with these words: "Qu'est-ce que vous désirez, messieurs?" ("What do you want, gentlemen?") Said the chief of the German Delegation, Mathias Erzberger:* "We have come to receive the proposal of the Allied Powers for an armistice." Foch (sharply): "I have no proposal whatsoever to make." Count Alfred von Oberndorff: "Tell us, Herr Feldmarschall, how you wish us to express ourselves. Our delegation is prepared...