Word: dona
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Spain was dry. Into dusty Lorca in southern Murcia marched a raggle-taggle collection of 2,000 farm laborers from the mountain villages of Abiles, Dona Ines, La Paca. Some came in carts, some swung their brown heels against the moldy sides of sad-eyed donkeys, but most were on foot, faint from hunger. They had come to Lorca to live. Not for seven years, said the spokesman, had a drop of rain fallen on Abiles, Dona Ines, or La Paca...
...only a soldier of the first rank in his ability to handle men and in his ingenuity in military tactics, but also an able administrator who knew well how to direct the fruits of his conquest along lines of permanence by fostering settlement and agriculture. The figure of Dona Marina, the beautiful Indian interpretress who shared all the toils of his arduous campaigns, gives an added note of romance. Yet notwithstanding the epic quality of Mr. Robinson's recent biography, Prescott's "Conquest of Mexico" is still the most dramatic and astounding account of the exploits of Hernando Cortez...
...enthusiasts even interpreted it to mean Democratic support of the President's policies. President Hoover himself, taking it at face value, telegraphed the Democratic Senate floorleader. Joseph Taylor Robinson of Arkansas, his personal acceptance. But tart Senator George Higgins Moses of New Hampshire paraphrased Virgil, saying "Timeo Democrats et dona ferentes [I fear the Democrats, even when bringing gifts...
...Radio Corp. of America, and President M. H. Aylesworth of National Broadcasting Co., all in Manhattan. The conversation was broadcast. After Senator Marconi had expressed confidence in trans-Atlantic telephone television, international broadcasting and had commented on the new radio station abuilding at Vatican city (TIME, April 21), said Dona Maria Cristina Bezzi-Scala Marconi to President Sarnoff: "Have you heard the news...