Word: thereness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Everybody talks about Moscow, but few have any picture of the city in their mind's eye-the kind of picture that forms at the mention of London or New York or Paris. On the opposite page are some postwar Moscow pictures. Like postcard shots anywhere, they put the...
*Earlier in the week Cripps announced that the dollar deficit had been reduced, and the London Daily Telegraph made one of the worst puns in years: "There is no truth . . . in the rumor that when Sir Stafford Cripps preaches in St. Paul's he will wear a surplus."
In transfer prisons, new convicts meet nonpolitical criminals, pick up prison argot and learn prison songs. There is one for every occasion. As they are herded into the train the convicts sing:
In this case, the duke was Carlos Pérez Soane de Pino Hermoso (beautiful pine), a grandee of Spain. Don Carlos is the only Spanish blueblood who still pursues the medieval sport of bullfighting on horseback. He owns a breeding farm called El Monasterio, where he trains his own...
He had three daughters. The middle one, Angelita, was a willowy, dark-eyed 19, in hauteur and horsemanship a chip off the old pine. She always appeared at the Sunday afternoon parties, and there, about a year ago, she met Luis Miguel González, peasant-born, who is called...