Word: de
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pedro de Macoris, Dominican Republic...
...high sides of the bay, but in the morning all seven battleships-the Olympia, the Baltimore, the Raleigh, the Petrel, the Concord, the Boston, the McCulloch were lined up in the harbor opposite seven Spanish boats bravely named after kings and queens and merry islands; Reina Cristina, Don Antonio de Ulloa, Don Juan de Austria, Isla de Cuba, Isla de Luzon, Cano, Marques del Duero. On the bridge of the Olympia stood two men; one of them was Commodore Dewey, commander of the American fleet, the other was his flag officer. The harbor was very quiet for a few minutes...
French Senator Henry de Jouvenel, recently turned "traitor" to the League of Nations, as many internationalists profess, declared that the Spirit of Locarno was not enough to secure the peace of Europe. In voicing such expression he was speaking for the French Nationalists (the Poincareists) whose suspicion of Germany is deeprooted...
...wanted to be a musician disappeared in the wilds of sea and mountains between Brunswick, Ga., and Rio de Janeiro. In his youth in Rochester, Paul Redfern studied music, dreaming of one day becoming a great figure in the world of opera & orchestra. At the threshold of his career he failed to obtain an expected orchestra engagement and turned from flutes to flying ships. After a curious itinerant career as a stunt flyer; advertising flyer; flying scout for the Prohibition service; small airport proprietor; he sought backing for a New York-to-Paris flight this year. He failed. Soon...
...comparatively small creature could be pictured entering the cartoon published last month by the New York Herald Tribune, entitled "The Behemoths at Play." This cartoon showed a hippopotamus (General Motors Corp.) swallowing an elephant (U. S. Steel) which had by the tail a rhinoceros (E. I. du Pont de Nemours Corp.) which was swallowing the hippo...