Word: de
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...went to South America to seek his fortune and was so successful that he became the Spanish-appointed Governor of Chile. Son Bernardo was educated in Spain and England, returned to work, later fight, for Chilean independence at the side of South America's famed liberator, José de San Martin. In 1817 Bernardo O'Higgins became benevolent dictator of Chile's first independent permanent government...
...from the love of making that one sort of picture. The latest fad is drama filmed in the throbbing heart of India, replete with blood-thirsty native revolutionaries and Oxford accented imperialists. "Gunga Din," which begins its regular run at Keith's today, is the most recent piece de resistance...
...I.R.A. terrorist attacks on British soldiers in Eire and on those Irishmen who sought compromise with Britain became so embarrassing that Premier Eamon de Valera, an I.R.A. fighter before he became reconciled to the policy of compromise, ordered it disarmed, dissolved. But I.R.A. extremists were not to be stopped. Up in the hills of rock-walled County Donegal, in the purple bogs of County Mayo and windswept County Clare they began to drill and equip a new army, reported to be 15,000 strong. If the bombings continue, they are certain to disrupt the policy of friendly understanding which Premier...
...rowed a Pitcairner with two gift parcels, one for Mrs. Hall, the other for DeGhett. On the way home the City of Delhart's Radio Operator Scruggs kept trying at odd times to raise Mrs. Hall or DeGhett. Last week as the ship lay in Hoboken, Scruggs caught De Ghett's ear. Pitcairn had told DeGhetl about the gifts. Here they were at last Scruggs advised him to hurry over and get "the stuff." "We're sailing tomorrow," he said, "and you ought to get it tonight. I'll leave it with the fellow...
Divorced. Nona McAdoo de Mohrenschildt Cowles Taylor, second of the five daughters of California's ex-Senator William Gibbs McAdoo (by his three wives,* he had respectively three sons and three daughters; two daughters; no children); from her third husband, Francis Taylor, Manhattan socialite; in Reno. Grounds: mental cruelty...