Word: del
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last week Rafael Merry del Val stepped reluctantly out of the shadow of the retirement in which he has lived since the death of Pope Pius X, his beloved friend. He celebrated the silver jubilee of his elevation, at the hands of Pius X, to the cardinalate. He celebrated a high mass. He attended a banquet in his honor. Then once again he withdrew into the cloister of his memories...
Revenge. Dolores Del Rio can stamp her foot, toss her head, show her teeth, snap her fingers in a way that makes you look at her; still more, she can twitch her eyebrow.* Sometimes it is one eyebrow, sometimes the other. Like those lads who, in school, have awed companions by a strange ability to flex their ears, Dolores Del Rio has awed nations of cinema-seers with her eyebrows. A bear-tamer, now, she twitches scorn for gentlemanly suitors, then pretends fury at Jorga, big brigand who beats her and cuts off her hair; at last a swift...
...Just before Revenge opened in Manhattan Jaime Del Rio, divorced husband of Dolores, died in a German sanitorium after having been assured of her love. (TIME...
Introibo ad altare del. ... "I will go in unto the altar of God. Unto God, Who giveth joy to my youth...
Three months ago in Paris Miss Del Rio asked her husband if she could come and see him; after that they wrote to each other, the actress finally-"Keep up your courage, darling. I don't forget you in my heart. You must get well. I love you, I love you."-a message (it was the one the sick man did not live to read) suggesting once more the odd fact that all emotions of a certain sort, whether real or assumed, can be expressed only in the language of subtitles...