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  • "Lale, " said the woman with the whip, summoning forward, with a gesture of the whip, the last of the slaves before me.

    Mercenaries Of Gor Norman, John 1985

  • Not surprisingly, Lale has little interest in describing Mexico in postcard-radiant terms — yet the work is all the more convincing for it.

    Mexico inspires a growing list of foreign writers 2009

  • Not surprisingly, Lale has little interest in describing Mexico in postcard-radiant terms — yet the work is all the more convincing for it.

    Mexico inspires a growing list of foreign writers 2009

  • The recent publication of Last Stop Salina Cruz by Scottish writer David Lale has its protagonist following in the footsteps of the fabulously mysterious poet boxer Arthur Cravan, also a crackerjack Dadaist, who vanished after leaving Mexico in 1918 to parts unknown — some say to a watery grave in the Gulf of Tehuantepec, but nothing is certain.

    Mexico inspires a growing list of foreign writers 2009

  • The recent publication of Last Stop Salina Cruz by Scottish writer David Lale has its protagonist following in the footsteps of the fabulously mysterious poet boxer Arthur Cravan, also a crackerjack Dadaist, who vanished after leaving Mexico in 1918 to parts unknown — some say to a watery grave in the Gulf of Tehuantepec, but nothing is certain.

    Mexico inspires a growing list of foreign writers 2009

  • A thousand miles from home, cold beyond their previous imaginings, his troops watched the anti-aircraft light show over distant Moscow, and listened to Lale Anderson sing ‘Lili Marlene’ on forces radio, three short minutes of melancholy warmth to set against the long hours of paralysing frost.

    Sealing Their Fate David Downing 2009

  • The change to bank-holding status will essentially convert the Salt Lale City-based CIT Bank, a subsidiary of CIT Group, into a state bank.

    CIT to Convert Into Bank Holding Company 2008

  • The new sultan was a cultivated man whose time of rule came to be known as the Tulip Period (Lale devri) for the passionate obsession with tulips that took hold among the upper classes.

    1695 2001

  • Three more times then the lash fell upon the hapless Lale, and then she lay on her belly, sobbing on the tiles.

    Mercenaries Of Gor Norman, John 1985

  • "I am Lale, " said the girl, dancing meaningfully before (pg. 325) me.

    Mercenaries Of Gor Norman, John 1985

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