Word: de
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sentence of death was passed last week upon José de Leon Toral, self-confessed assassin of President-Elect Alvaro Obregon (TIME, July 30). Sentence of 20 years imprisonment was passed on Toral's "intellectual accomplice," the nun Concepci...
Because President Irigoyen, during his previous term (1916-22), gave aid and comfort to numerous striking unions, his present attitude was hailed, last week, in the Bolsa de Comerxia or "Wall Street" of Buenos Aires as of favorable omen...
Addressing the Society, famed Obstetrician Dr. Arnaldo de Moraes said: "One out of every 133 mothers in Rio de Janeiro die in childbirth. True this compares favorably with the mortality of soldiers, in the Great War, when one out of every 50 died. But gentlemen!-we must make it possible for Brazilian mothers to march joyously to maternity, without the forebodings of soldiers marching to battle...
Married. Ruth Emery Ledyard, granddaughter of Lewis Gass Ledyard, Manhattan lawyer and bank director; and William de Rham, Manhattan scion; in Manhattan...
...began with the clicking of castanets in the wings and the gliding entrance of La Argentina. She was tired and languorous as the sun that used to warm her; she was glittering and remote; she was a primitive thing driving away evil spirits to the fire music made from de Falla's Amor Brujo, snapping her fingers, clucking her tongue; a comic spirit cavorting on a peasant's holiday. She danced without accompaniment, was herself the musician, playing a busy bass with her heels while her castanets turned the tune of a Seguidillas...