Word: edelmira
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...Girl of 20. When the sack of San Pedro moved into the next operation, looting, it became plain that Tulio had an extraordinary co-commander: a dark, slim girl of about 20. The bandits called her Doña Edelmira; she wore men's clothes, carried two revolvers and a knife, seemed to be Tulio's girl. Edelmira directed the pillage. The bandits stacked the loot in the plaza, loaded it on stolen mules. Bandolero, Edelmira enforced a stern rule upon the men; she permitted no raping or kidnaping of the village women...
...plaza to drink aguardiente from the local cantina. They hauled the little harmonium out of the church, tried to play it, failed, and smashed it with rifle butts. Then they found a phonograph. It provided music for a wild dance in the plaza's basketball court. Edelmira did not dance, and under her eye the bandits dared not seek village women for partners. So the men danced together, one cavorting wildly in a cassock he found in the priest's house...
Divorced. Alfonso Pio Cristino Eduardo Francisco Guillermo Carlos Enrique Eugenio Fernando Antonio Venancio, Count of Covadonga, 30, heir to the non-existent Spanish throne; by his estranged Countess, the former Cuban commoner Edelmira Sampedro; in Havana. Grounds: "Abandonment of domicile." She was awarded $100-a-month alimony, the right to all gifts he gave her%#151principally $3,000 worth of jewelry. The Count cheered lustily, shouted "I'm free again," embraced Fiancee Marta Rocafort...
...current issue of TIME under the heading Milestones, three out of nine notices of marriages refer to the bride as "one," as "George Hearst married one Lorna Pratt Velie; John Duval Dodge married one Dora McDonald Cline; and Prince Alfonso married one Edelmira Sampedro...
Married. Alfonso, onetime Prince of the Asturias; and one Edelmira Sampedro; in Lausanne...