Word: dona
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...took the journey for his health, having just knifed a local scoundrel with an uncomfortably large number of brothers. It was a long, arduous, dangerous trip, but young Juan had the time of his life. He became immediately devoted to the Inspector-Gen-eral's wife, proud Dona Ysabel, and was given the job of guarding her only son. Dona Ysabel's family motto appealed to him: "We fear no King, nor any devil; only God when He is just...
...journey Juan's adored Dona Ysabel gave him a farewell letter; he could not read it but would let no one else so much as look at it. At the end of his story he says: "I have treasured it all my life, like nothing else I have ever had. There is one grandchild of Heraclio's who seems to me clean inside and out. If she learns to read Spanish well, and at 16 seems to be what she now is, I may trust her to read this letter of Dona Ysabel's to me; though...
...largest diamond found in South Africa's Kimberley Mines (442 carats) or in her De Beers Mines (503 carats) was a monstrous Brazilian diamond of 574 carats found last week by an impecunious prospector in Bello Horizonte, 300 miles from Rio de Janeiro, on the lands of rich Dona Dolores Matta Machado Vidigal...
...Dona Dolores, so far as could be learned, took no steps. In Rio a diamond merchant offered $80,000 for the stone, was refused by the prospector, who seemed to know a thing or two himself. (Thus in 1853 the Star of the South [254 carats and up to last week the largest diamond ever discovered in Brazil] was sold in the rough for $200,000. Jewelers who cut it down to a flawless, polished stone of 125 carats sold that to H. H. the Gaekwar of Baroda for $400,000, also sold other parts of the Star...
Burschen, heraus!; Heidenroslein; Du, du liegst mir im Herzen; Zwei Herzen im drei-viertel Takt; Auch Du wirst mich einmal betrugen; O Dona Clara; Das schwarzbraune Bier; Crambambuli; O alte Burschen herrlichkeit...