Word: gomezes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Earth's 60-mile crust.* There was much rain everywhere last winter and spring. In Germany, Jugoslavia and Mexico, heavy summer rains last week swelled rivers and lakes far above their margins, flooding mankind out of house, harvest and life. At León, Mexico, the Santiago and Gomez rivers burst out upon inhabitants by night, sweeping cattle and humans through the streets, crumbling adobe structures beneath falling walls of water. Confused despatches estimated the destruction far above the flood of 1889 when hundreds of Leónites lost their lives. Terrific lightning displays accompanied the deluge...
Portuguese. Out of Lisbon harbor droned a big Portugese naval plane. The heart of old Prince Henry the Navigator (1394-1460), who used to call international pilots' councils and who sent Gomez and Fernandez to feel their way down to and around the terrible tip of unknown Africa, would have swelled with pride to see Lieutenants Moreira and Neves-Terriera head out over the broad Atlantic for the Madeira Islands, some 800 miles away. . . . Nightfall did not find them in Funchal. Their plane had pitched to the sea, as if crippled, but it was not crippled?only...
Meller has been married. Gomez Carillo, her husband, was a powerful South American journalist. Jealous of her success, he had her arrested and almost succeeded in having her detained in an asylum for alleged insanity. The Pope annulled their marriage. She pronounces her name May-aire, but Manhattanites say Meller...
...great Varilla River is spanned by a railroad bridge. Out upon it puffed an excursion train. The excursionists chiefly farmers and laborers, had purchased their tickets at a high price, most of which represented a charitable contribution to a home for the aged, sponsored by the noted Professor Francisco Gomez Alizago...
...this man-General Francisco Gomez de la Torre-who precipitated the peaceful, bloodless revolution...