Word: dona
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Outside the bells of Saint Gudule moaned the grief of the world. Women who had been praying for hours in the street outside the clinic crossed themselves once again; rose with stiffened knees and chilled bodies. "Requiem in aetemam dona eis, Domine," prayed all society. Lying in state at Malines on Sunday, the frail old body was approached with reverence by a long queue. They touched the hems o? hio robes, they brough/ pious tokens and keepsakes for the cold fingers to brush. Toward evening the line still stretched far down the dusky avenue. There was rioting before the doors...
Married. Vicente Blasco Ibañez, 58, famed Spanish novelist, to Dona Elena Ortuzar Bulnes, widow of a Chilean diplomat; at Mentone, France. His first wife died last January...
...spindling colts-remnants of the famed stable of the late August Belmont, being sold by a red-faced auctioneer. No one told him of the prices: how his father, Fair Play, went to Joseph E. Widener for $100,000; his mother, Mahubah, brought a miserable $8,000; his friends Dona Rocca and Blue Grass $40,000 and $27,000 respectively...
...part of Marguerite Gautler, Mlle. Sorel brings her highly diverting and colorful personality, her strutful walk, her studied poses, her technical certainty, her well-managed voice. More affecting and effective is she in the part of this naughtly lady regenerated by love than as the Dona clorinde of Augier's "L'Aventurere" playing with a deeper sincerity and greater conviction. She was highly amusing in the lighter passages, and once or twice she actually gripped in emotional scenes. And her costumes, which are always half the exhibition when Mlle. Sorel appears, were not only more tasteful and beautiful...
...House. The first public exhibition was held last night and was received very favorably. The cast of "Pastora" is as follows: Goy, brother to Jose, Edgar Scott '20 Jose, a bull-fighter, J. W. D. Seymour '17 Alesandro, servant to Jose, Stuart Marsten Pastora, a dancer, Miss Dorothy Sands Dona Antonia, mother of Jose and Goy, Miss Angela Morris Maid to Dona Antonia, Miss Lydia Walker Rosa, Miss Doris Halman Beggar boy, Joseph Curtin Sirena, maid to Pastora, Miss Elizabeth James Signor Louanais, E. D. Dunn Vito, C. H. Hungeford 1G. Frederico, Alan Thompson 1G. A waiter, L. N. Pearson...