Word: infantes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will be realized. For Denise, however, it is never realized. The moth perishes due to her neglect, and her child, her ultimate justification, dies stillborn. Then Horace, in spite of the fact that he is opposed to Catholicism, shows an odd streak of under- standing by having the moribund infant baptised according to the Roman ritual in order that it may be immortalized...
...handsome, white stone Palace at Belgrade came, immediately following the event, Prime Minister Vukitchevitch and Minister of Justice Subotitch who solemnly verified the occurrence and sex of the royal infant. Not present was Dowager Queen Marie of Rumania, mother of Marie of Jugoslavia, who visited Belgrade briefly, three weeks ago, then returned to Bucharest, Rumanian capital. Court gossips again recalled the increasing impatience with which Marie of Jugoslavia has long received her mother's well meant but garrulous councils upon every phase of a queen's private and public life...
Taras Bulba is a striking proof that in Poland, at least, the manufacture of motion pictures is an infant industry. It contains, however, some good specimens of the medieval Cossacks...
...Caribbean side. Culebra Hill, upon which the Roosevelt statue will stand silent overlooking the spot where the last dikes were blasted to join ocean with ocean, is near the southern (Pacific) end of the strip of territory which alert President Roosevelt bought for $10,000,000* from the infant Republic of Panama in 1903 (Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty) the instant the Panamen revolted from Colombia, which had warily been refusing President Roosevelt's overtures.† "Oh, Mr. President," cried Attorney General Philander Chase Knox, "do not let so great an achievement suffer from any taint of legality...
...which has made its way out of the commercial entanglements that threatened to smother it at birth and which now provides movies whose average caliber is surprisingly high, one may feel well fortified against the entrenchments of the imminent winter, when hegiras to Boston seem long and arduous. The infant industry has a way of filling in empty hours which is pleasant and occasionally beneficial. It serves well as a target for the highbrow's scorn but it also serves equally well as a remedy for his ennui...