Word: elvira
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...said. "England understands trouble and my relations with England were always good. I expect to sleep most of the day." Britons thought it possible he might sleep well, since Sr. Machado is reported to have a personal deposit with the Bank of England of 500,000 gold dollars. Senora Elvira Machado -estranged from her husband for the past five years-was escorted with other members of the fallen Dictator's family to his gunboat-yacht, the Juan B. Zayas, which carried them safely to Key West...
...Barney & Lover. Before the Hon. Mr. Justice Humphreys and a jury of ten men & two women in Old Bailey appeared Mrs. Elvira Dolores Barney, accused of murdering her lover Thomas William Scott Stephen after a cocktail party in her West End flat. One dawn last month a physician, hastily summoned, found Mrs. Barney, whose husband is a U. S. radio crooner, anxiously kissing Stephen's cooling corpse. A revolver lay nearby. While Mrs. Barney awaited trial her father. Sir John Mullens, was reported to be liquidating the Mullens gems to raise the huge fee of her defender, lean...
...trimmer in our party was a 17-year-old girl, whose name was Elvira Kukel. She was a frail, pretty, sympathetic girl, who had the misfortune of being the daughter of Col. Kukel, of the former Imperial Guards...
Died. Signora Elvira Donturi Puccini, widow of Composer Giacomo Puccini (Manon Lescaut, La Boheme, Tosca, Madame Butterfly); of heart disease; at Milan, Italy. In 1909 Signora Puccini served five months in jail for driving to suicide a servant girl whom she accused of having an affair with her husband. After the girl died she was cleared of Signora Puccini's accusation. Puccini died in 1924, aged...
...country. No one dared live outside the stockade: the Indians, hostile in their own right, were also encouraged by the British, who paid a bounty for Yankee prisoners, Yankee scalps, brought to Detroit. Once Diony and her mother-in-law wandered too far from the fort: Shawnees killed Elvira, left Diony for dead. She recovered, but Berk vowed vengeance, went off with three companions to hunt the Shawnees, even up his score. Only one came back. Two years later Diony married the survivor, thinking at last Berk must be dead. But Berk had been captured, not killed; taken to Detroit...