Word: del
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Continued Correspondent Haas: "This young lieutenant . . . whose name we shall not mention ... we shall call him Brownlee, was stationed at a little town called San Rafael del Norte, wherein the wife of Sandino* was employed by the Government as a telegraph operator in the hope that she might give some valuable information as to the whereabouts of her husband...
...deliberated. There were strolls in the Borghese gardens and midnight consultations in the overcrowded inns. The youngest delegate was the Archbishop of Baltimore, the late Cardinal Gibbons. The shrewdest was the Archbishop of Westminster, Henry Edward Manning. To his delight he was nicknamed by the other delegates Il Diavolo del Concilio...
...total trackage of 10,601 miles. The Jersey Central runs from Jersey City west to Scranton, Pa., and south to resort towns on the New Jersey coast. The Reading goes from Boundbrook, N. J., to Philadelphia, Reading, Harrisburg and Bethlehem, Pa., also Lancaster, Pa. and Wilmington, Del. The B. & O. is already heavily loaded with Reading securities...
...Louisine Waldron Elder mar ried Henry Osborne Havemeyer (Ameri can Sugar Refining Co.) and started to collect pictures in earnest. A few years later, she could walk into her private museum, gaze upon Veronese, del Sarto, Filippo Lippi, Rembrandt, de Hoogh, Hals, Rubens, Cranach, El Greco, Goya, Millet, Monet, Manet, Puvis de Chavannes, Re noir, Pissarro, Corot, Poussin, Ingres, Cezanne, Mary Cassatt and Degas. If the mood was not for pictures, there were sundry other objets d'art - marbles by Donatello, Cyprian glass, Italian faience, Japanese lacquers, Hispano-Moresque plaques, and a collection of weird Degas excursions into clay...
Brave indeed was Mary Garden last week as Fiora in the Chicago Civic Opera's L'Amore del Tre Re. Basso Virgilio Lazzari as the blind Archibaldo had strangled her, thrown her body easily* over his shoulder, started for the wings. But, once deposited there, she fainted. Her back had been badly sprained. Yet rather than disappoint friends she went to a tea given in her honor, chatted and smiled for two hours before she went home for doctor's treatment...