Word: cristos
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...started writing seriously. Up to that time his sorely-tried father, Actor James O'Neill, thought his son was just "crazy." Eugene O'Neill had been a beachcomber at Buenos Aires, a seaman, a reporter on the New London Telegraph, had trouped with the parental Monte Cristo road company...
...Santa Fe accompanied by his granddaughter Martha and followed by his grieving wife. The night was spent at what was once his great ranch at Three Rivers. Two days later the erstwhile Secretary of the Interior entered the grim grey institution at the foot of the Sangre de Cristo range to pay the penalty for taking a $100,000 bribe from Oilman Edward Laurence Doheny almost ten years...
Juliette Brucz, with a passion for Dumas novels, turned the gas on her sleeping husband and went upstairs to read The Count of Monte Cristo...
...police, knowing their mob, avoided trouble by debarking Algeria's Barbe Bleu at the island in the harbor of Marseilles on which stands the Chateau d'If, made famed by Duma's Monte Cristo...
...membered a few intensely recognizable bits of childhood: her stray animals' cemetery, with a particularly fine brick for canary David's headstone; her turning agnostic because no God smote her for saying "golly-golly-golly" all through church; her discovery of The Count of Monte Cristo, and amazement, on being called to supper, that all her humdrum world was going on just as usual...