Word: elena
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week, driving nine head of cattle before her. She drove them into the campus of Louisiana State University and turned them over to the authorities. President James Monroe Smith of the University had announced that farm produce would be accepted in lieu of cash for tuition. She was Elena Percy, 17, of West Feliciana Parish. She wanted to be a freshman. She was accepted...
...entertainment of a delightful evening. Alfred is the dashing Prince Rudolph Von Hapsburg, but he really plays no part so much as that of Alfred Lunt Himself. Lynn Fontanne, relieved from her gray hair and wrinkles as Elizabeth the Queen emerged radiant and lovely in the part of Frau Elena Krug. It is not too much to say that to gaze at Lynn Fontanne, to follow her movements carefully is an experience only too rare in a world of harsh vulgarities. She does wonderfully in her part; her poise, her dress, her voice are all exquisite...
...immediately proclaimed Dictator by the helpless King. For a time, with Luciana helping, he is kingpin. But he needs king-pin-money from U. S. Financier Stedford to keep going. At first Stedford, who has a passion for Luciana, grants the loans. But when Hannibal makes up to Elena, the King's youngest daughter, finally marries her, Stedford subsidizes Conspirator Gandolfo and Hannibal is exiled. A fugitive with Elena, he is attacked by an anarchist, but his wife saves his life with hers. After years of lonely wanderings he returns to Luciana, who takes him in hand, teaches his star...
...life of Benito Mussolini there is in fact no Stedford, no Luciana and no Elena. Not a "Stedford" but Wall Street's greatest banks have supplied the Fascist Regime with loans. So many women have brightened the Dictator's leisure that to pick out one and call her "Luciana" is mere English understatement. Finally the Dictator, who was a proud, prolific father long before his rise to power, has most certainly never aspired to marry a daughter of King Vittorio Emanuele...
...boned Queen Elena was the daughter of lusty, barrel-shaped Nicholas I, peasant King of Montenegro. Roman gossips have always insisted that the marriage was arranged to rejuvenate the inbred House of Savoy. Peasant Queen Elena's appreciation of art is elementary. Scholars of the American Academy in Rome still remember the occasion two years ago when she paused uncertainly before a stylized picture of a nude Europa balanced on the back of a swimming bull and demanded in her booming voice, "Why is de cow sticking out de tongue?" With her hands folded over her stomach, she moved...