Word: garcia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plenty of old jokes about California climate and real estate, the fabric of this play is mere burlap. One shining thread is woven through it in the fat shape of Mrs. Rogers' girlhood suitor who returns wealth, laden with bonbons, declaring: "With me, everything is a message to Garcia...
...Historia General de las Indias" was published in 1535 at Seville. Written in a diffuse style, it embodies a mass of curious information collected at first hand. This book, on exhibition now, ends with an epistle addressed, "Al reverendissimo e illustrissimo senor el cardenal de Espana don fray Garcia Fofre de Loaysa," and it is signed by the author...
...crime which demanded the operation occurred 16 years ago. At that time Minister of Executions Francisco de Pineda, then just an ordinary thief, with two friends, entered the farmhouse of Emilia Muniz Garcia, 63. Together they trussed her up, gagged and robbed her. The gag shoved Signora Garcia's false teeth down her throat. She choked, died...
...month ago the escaped Rabano, now a dapper, perfumed Cuban racketeer, was arrested in Tampa, Fla. Five Cuban judges gravely reviewed the 16-year-old story of Emilia Garcia's false teeth, sentenced Ziolo Rabano to death by garrote...
...released on $500 bail, furnished by his official accusers. The charge against him was grand larcency. Senora Vincenta Garcia had bought some lots from him, had failed to pay for them. When he sought to recover them, she charged she was being cheated. The Judicial Police advised him that "Cuba would feel happier if he would return to the U. S. and stay there, thus avoiding trouble and unpleasantness...