Word: aurelio
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...approached the pier, was told by the night watchman that no rum had landed but that five Cubans in the last stages of seasickness had staggered ashore. Patrolman Melvin went into action, trailed the party to the Hotel Wiltshire. There he found Rosendo Collazo, onetime Cuban Senator and colonel; Aurelio Collazo, his son, a lawyer; Aurelio Alvarez, discontented sugar planter; Rafael Idurralde, another lawyer; Captain Luis H. Rodiguez, onetime political prisoner in Havana; and William H. Carey, retired seaman of New York City...
...sheer frenzy and unprintable vilification of debate in the Senate was barely eclipsed by that in the House. Deputy Manuel Mijares shrieked: "Morones is a octopus sucking the blood of the laboring classes, vulturing and gorging on the dupes who have elected him President of the Crom!" Deputy Aurelio Manrique began by calling President Calles a Judas and worked down through comparisons which finally became obscene. Senator Lauro C. Caloca hurled thoroughgoing curses and charged that Señor Calles when President had connived with Luis Morones in stupendous graft. Meanwhile in the Chamber of Deputies Melchor Ortega and Aurelio...
...this matter there were still others to reckon with. Aurelio, son of a sulphur miner, had once saved Salvo from a ludicrous death, whereupon Salvo generously awarded the boy with education, and a position as foreman of sulphur mines. Influenced somewhat by her father's high opinion of Aurelio, Dianella fell glowingly in love with the youth. Meanwhile, what with strikes and lockouts at the mines, the situation became so serious that Salvo decided to abandon the project of marrying the girl to Lando Laurentano and to give her instead to Aurelio, if that young man could quell...
Honor was done to brown Umberto, however, by three personages: 1) British High Commissioner for Palestine Baron Plumer, who entertained him at Government House; 2) Patriarch Monsignor Barlassina (Roman Catholic), who donned a great purple robe and blessed Umberto; 3) good Father Aurelio Marotta "Custodian of the Holy Land and Guardian of the Holy Sepulchre" (Roman Catholic), who led His Royal Highness into the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and showed him an empty tomb...
Uncle & Nephew. Fortune Gallo, for 17 years owner and director of the San Carlo Grand Opera Co., has given over his holdings to his nephew, Aurelio. This year the Manhattan autumn season will be omitted, the Company going on tour Sept. 26. Meanwhile Uncle Fortune will build a new theater on 54th st., Manhattan, where, if the structure is completed in time, the nephew's Company may be seen in a spring engagement...