Word: alvarado
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Edward Stephen Harkness, Manhattan financier, presented last week to the Library of Congress a large collection of 16th Century manuscripts concerning the conquest of Mexico and Peru by Cortez, Pizarro and their successors. The documents included a bill of sale of Alvarado's armada to Pizarro and Almagro for 100,000 gold pesos; also, the Cabildo book of the City of the Frontier of the Chachapoyas telling of the assassination of Pizarro by Almagro...
Battle of the Sexes. Fifteen years ago D. W. Griffith presented a picture called The Battle of the Sexes starring Dorothy Gish, now refilmed with modern casts and setting and the original story of a businessman harassed by a professional sweetheart and a tearful wife. Bedroom antics by Don Alvarado and the squirmings on a cushioned floor of Miss Phyllis Haver's stomach supplied an element which kept fingers busy in the box-offices of theatres which showed this picture last week...
...dawn neared, a battalion of Federal troops quartered near the Presidential palace in Caracas mutinied under the leadership of Chief-Conspirator Captain Rafael Alvarado. Two brother officers who would not join the mutiny were shot dead. Then, having tasted blood, the battalion rushed out at double quick march to seize the large supplies of arms always kept at the San Carlos Barracks...
...forgive neither of them for their sin. Mary Philbin, garbed in tight and tenuous garments, is almost equally competent to express her perplexity in the choice between loyalty and passion. The younger brother to the hunchback is a handsome cinemactor of Valentinoesque appearance; his name is Don Alvarado...
Married. Miss Nora Alvarado, daughter of Felipe J. Alvarado, vice president of Costa Rica; to one Roberto S. Mata of Manhattan; in Manhattan. Her father was present...