Word: anna
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Very subdued and tearful was 21-year-old Signora Anna Donnarumma, in the village of Gragnano last fortnight, for she had just given birth to girl-twins...
There were some sharp-eyed men, friends of the white woman's, at the ceremony. After it they shook their heads dubiously. The Kansas marriage laws relating to Indians might be tricky, they said. So the sharp-eyed men and the woman-he had learned her name now: Anna Laura Lowe-took Jackson Barnett to Independence, Mo., and had the marriage performed a second time. That struck Jackson as unfair. He had not cared much about getting married once. Twice was much big nuisance, too much...
...William H. Buckler, D, Phil. Oxon., will give a lecture at the Fogg Museum this afternoon at 4.30 o'clock. The lecture, which is open to the public, will be on the subject of "The Education of Anna Comnena...
...India snake charmers are an impoverished, filthy, untouchable lot of Jogis. With woven baskets containing their trained pythons or cobras they traipse about villages and towns. For an anna or two the charmer sets his serpent on the ground and blows through his pungi. The pungi is a bottle-shaped gourd with two reeds or bamboos inserted. One tube has finger stop-holes and emits a shrill penetrating whine. The other has no holes and gives out a drone. Snakes have no ears. But under their skin they have two primitive ear drums and through those the Indian snake feels...
...Life, College Humor, Pictorial Review, Country Gentleman. For the shapely, aristocratic, painted heroines of Fisher Body (TIME, Dec. 24, et ante} Artist Barclay receives $1200 each. *1st George Jay (died 1923), 2nd Edwin, 3rd Helen (now Mrs. Finlay J. Shepard, mother of four adopted children), 4th Howard, 6th Anna (Countess Boni de Castellane from 1895 to 1905, but now Princesse de Sagan and Duchesse de Talleyrand. Count Boni de Castellane, who has not yet obtained a Roman Catholic annulment and therefore cannot marry again, is a famed disconsolate character in Paris, where he lives with a famed bull...